Transcending boundaries : Zhejiangcun : the story of a migrant village in Beijing / / by Xiang Biao ; translated by Jim Weldon.
Based on the author's own six years' fieldwork, this book looks at critical features of China's current social change, recounting how, against the odds, a group of migrants created their own major community outside of the State system and looking at that communities' interaction...
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| Superior document: | China studies ; v. 5 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Series: | China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of maps; Author's preface to the abridged English version; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. 1984: Let's Go to ... Beijing!; Chapter Two. 1986-1988: Getting Street-wise; Chapter Three. 1988-1992: A Breakthrough with Leather Jackets; Chapter Four. Into the 1990's: Networks Across the Country; Chapter Five. 1992-1994: Government Comes to Zhejiangcun; Chapter Six. 1994: Taking Root in Beijing; Chapter Seven. 1995: Capitulations and Comebacks; Concluding Remarks; Glossary; Glossary of place names; References; Index