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Journal articles on the topic "Industrial sociology – China"

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Christerson, Brad, and Constance Lever‐Tracy. "The Third China? Emerging industrial districts in rural China." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 21, no. 4 (December 1997): 569–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00102.

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Albala-Bertrand, J. M. "Industrial interdependence: China 1995–2010." China Economic Journal 11, no. 2 (April 10, 2018): 170–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2018.1458391.

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Makeeva, Svetlana B. "The Role of the China Association of Regional Studies in the Development of Spatial Regional Development of China (1991 – Present)." Herald of Omsk University. Series: Historical Studies 7, no. 2 (26) (October 8, 2020): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24147/2312-1300.2020.7(2).22-30.

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The article defines the role of the China Association of Regional Studies (established in 1991) in the process of studying and analyzing regional problems of the spatial organization of the economy in China after the start of the policy of “reform and openness”. The consolidation of the scientific potential of Chinese scientists in the field of economics, geography, history, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies within the framework of the Association made it possible to develop high-quality recommendations on the regional development of China. The main aspects of the regional development of the PRC, considered within the framework of the Association, were issues related to the regional economy and regional policy (theory and practice), regional economic development strategies, a comprehensive assessment of the PRC regional policy after 1978, the regional economy in the border regions, and industrial agglomeration and industrial clusters in China.
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Wu, Yu‐Shan. "Reforming the revolution: Industrial policy in China." Pacific Review 3, no. 3 (January 1990): 243–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749008718872.

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Dong, Xuebing, Shunfeng Song, and Hui Zhu. "Industrial structure and economic fluctuation—Evidence from China." Social Science Journal 48, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 468–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2011.05.002.

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Gereffi, G. "Development Models and Industrial Upgrading in China and Mexico." European Sociological Review 25, no. 1 (July 18, 2008): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcn034.

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KING, AMY. "Reconstructing China: Japanese technicians and industrialization in the early years of the People's Republic of China." Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 1 (August 25, 2015): 141–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x15000074.

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AbstractThe Chinese Communist Party was confronted with the pressing challenge of ‘reconstructing’ China's industrial economy when it came to power in 1949. Drawing on recently declassified Chinese Foreign Ministry archives, this article argues that the Party met this challenge by drawing on the expertise of Japanese technicians left behind in Northeast China at the end of the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1953, when they were eventually repatriated, thousands of Japanese technicians were used by the Chinese Communist Party to develop new technology and industrial techniques, train less skilled Chinese workers, and rebuild factories, mines, railways, and other industrial sites in the Northeast. These first four years of the People's Republic of China represent an important moment of both continuity and change in China's history. Like the Chinese Nationalist government before them, the Chinese Communist Party continued to draw on the technological and industrial legacy of the Japanese empire in Asia to rebuild China's war-torn economy. But this four-year period was also a moment of profound change. As the Cold War erupted in Asia, the Chinese Communist Party began a long-term reconceptualization of how national power was intimately connected to technology and industrial capability, and viewed Japanese technicians as a vital element in the transformation of China into a modern and powerful nation.
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Lüthje, Boy. "Diverging Trajectories: Economic Rebalancing and Labour Policies in China." Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 42, no. 4 (December 2013): 105–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261304200405.

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This paper develops a new approach to analyse labour relations at the level of companies, industries, and regions in China. Referring to Western and Chinese labour sociology and industrial relations theory, the author applies the concept of “regimes of production” to the context of China's emerging capitalism. This article focuses on China's modern core manufacturing industries (i.e. steel, chemical, auto, electronics, and textile and garment); it explores regimes of production in major corporations and new forms of labour-management cooperation, the growing inequality and fragmentation of labour policies within the modern sectors of the Chinese economy, consequences for further reform regarding labour standards, collective bargaining, and workers’ participation.
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Gallagher, Kevin P., and M. Shafaeddin. "Policies for industrial learning in China and Mexico." Technology in Society 32, no. 2 (May 2010): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2010.04.002.

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Chan, Jenny. "Joel Andreas, Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China." International Sociology 35, no. 5 (September 2020): 555–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580920957940.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Industrial sociology – China"

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Ding, Jiaheng. "The role of guanxi in urban China's self-employment sector : a qualitative case study." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1491.

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Wu, Kai. "Migrants in Nanjing personal experiences and social process (China) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Li, Xiaobei Organisation &amp Management Australian School of Business UNSW. "Guanxi in Inter-firm relationship management in China." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Organisation and Management, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/30380.

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The interaction of the personnel boundary in inter-firm relationship management is viewed as particularistic in China instead of universalistic as in many Western cultures. Specifically, guanxi networks, the Chinese system of inter-personal relationship, have strong strategic implications for business interactions. The practices of guanxi and the social norms associated with guanxi are complicated. On the one hand, guanxi practices can be traced back to Confucianism; on the other hand, guanxi???s significance has been changing in line with China???s economic reform. In this research, we have attempted to find what presently constitutes good guanxi in inter-firm relationship management against this dynamic backdrop. Additionally, from the transaction cost economies (TCE) perspective, we provide an analysis that guanxi-based business practices offer transaction cost advantages as an alternative to market-based practices. We argue that such advantages partially result from guanxi???s effect on the reduction of opportunist behaviors. Backed up by 97 questionnaire responses from firms in Shanghai and 15 semi-structured interviews, our study confirms that, in inter-firm relationships management, trust, affection and long-term orientation are features of close guanxi. To enhance guanxi quality, familiarization by self-disclosure and the presence of mutual benefits are also necessary, providing practical implications for business practitioners in China. Our study also indicates that guanxi business partners are expected to be obligational in business and flexible in contingencies. Opportunistic behaviors can be mitigated by adopting guanxi practices, supporting the TCE logic. In an absence of a rationalized legal system, guanxi may fill the gaps in the enforcement of the written contract.N
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Ying, Chen. "'Managing labour' : transforming industrial relations in China's local state-owned sector." Thesis, University of Bath, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.720655.

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China’s achievement of developing a vigorous market economy is based on Chinese communist party (CCP)’s top-down reform and opening-up policies since 1978. Meanwhile, political reform of the second largest economy in today’s world is continuously delayed. Without an agenda of bringing democracy and regulation-making process into workplaces, China’s state-owned enterprises were swiftly transformed to be profit-oriented economic entities with managerial supremacy. As an authoritarian regime still run by communist party, China has to negotiate with its own socialist tradition, which entails not only restructuring labour relations in workplaces but its national ideology. This study explores Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) politics of labour management in China’s local state sector. With use of multiple qualitative inquiring techniques, the study selects two state-owned corporations located in Shanghai region as cases, and provides an in-depth analysis on Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) politics of managing labour force formulation as well as re-shaping employment relationship within those transitioning SOEs. The study is expected to illuminate the diversity within and across regions and industrial sectors in China. Also, these case studies suggest that CCP adopts pragmatic approaches over labour managing matters so as to ensure its sovereign influence. I will argue that the key to understand SOEs’ management rebuilding is CCP’s governing tradition of co-option and elite selection, which is a prolong legacy that has shaped the party’s personnel managing system since revolutionary era. It is also hoped that the findings of my empirical research will lead to theoretical discussion on China’s path of industrial relations in future: if such dynamic managerialism in the state sector is able to guarantee further delays of workplace political liberalisation of labour relation, or not.
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Li, Wei. "The Interaction between Ethnic Relations and State Power: A Structural Impediment to the Industrialization of China, 1850-1911." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05232008-161141/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Toshi Kii, committee chair; Jenny Heying Zhan, Charles Gallagher, Douglas Reynolds, Kim Reimann, committee members. Electronic text (273 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 11, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-259).
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Nojonen, Matti. "Guanxi : the Chinese third arm /." Helsinki : Helsinki School of Economics, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0716/2007462330.html.

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Frazier, Mark W. "The making of the Chinese industrial workplace : state, revolution, and labor management /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389557602.

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Brito, Cleiton Ferreira Maciel. "Made in China / produzido no polo industrial da zona franca de Manaus : o trabalho nas fábricas chinesas." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2017. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8965.

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This research analyses the Chinese production in the Industrial Cluster of Manaus Free Zone, focusing on the production pattern and work management. In recent years, significant changes have been operating within the global production chain as a result of the massive displacement of Chinese capital towards the various regions of the globe. Brazil and, more specifically, the Amazon has been one of the main destinations of these Chinese investments. An empirical proof of these metamorphoses of global capital is the arrival of a set of Chinese factories at the Industrial Cluster of Manaus (PIM) from the beginning of the year 2000. In order to understand the meaning of this on the organization of local work, especially in relation to the process of productive restructuring developed in the last years, this research sought to organizationally map out four Chinese factories. Quantitative and qualitative data were produced and gathered together from workers, managers, managers of public and private institutions, and Chinese expatriates. The research findings show that the Chinese, on the one hand, incorporated the local production pattern but, on the other hand, reshaped labour management. Such remodelling I called "taylorization with Chinese characteristics", which operates under the duality of being, at the same time, Made in China, but Produced at the Industrial Cluster of Manaus. As a fundamental element of this process, it was observed that strong socio-productive linkages between parent-subsidiary generate fragile socio-productive links in the Industrial Cluster of Manaus, implying high control of the Manauara workforce and Chinese expatriates. In spite of this, there has been a process of "appropriateness / injunction" that causes some "Chinese characteristics" to be deepened while others have to undergo transformations.
Esta pesquisa analisa a produção chinesa no Polo Industrial da Zona Franca de Manaus, com foco no padrão de produção e na gestão do trabalho. Nos últimos anos, mudanças significativas vêm sendo operadas no interior da cadeia produtiva global como resultado do massivo deslocamento do capital chinês em direção às diversas regiões do mundo, de sorte que, o Brasil e, mais especificamente, a Amazônia vem se constituindo na condição de um dos principais lugares de destino desses investimentos. Prova empírica dessas metamorfoses do capital global é a chegada de um conjunto de fábricas chinesas ao Polo Industrial de Manaus (PIM) a partir do início dos anos 2000. Buscando compreender o significado disso sobre a organização do trabalho local, sobretudo numa relação com o processo de reestruturação produtiva visualizado nos últimos anos, buscou-se mapear organizacionalmente quatro fábricas chinesas. Para isso, lançou-se mão de dados quantitativos e qualitativos obtidos juntos aos trabalhadores, gerentes, gestores de instituições públicas e privadas, e expatriados chineses. As conclusões da pesquisa mostram que os chineses, por um lado, incorporaram o padrão de produção local, mas, por outro, remodelaram a gestão do trabalho. A este remodelamento denominei como “taylorização com características chinesas” e que opera sob a dualidade de ser, ao mesmo tempo, Made in China, mas Produzido no Polo Industrial de Manaus. Como elemento fundamental desse processo, observou-se que os fortes vínculos sócio produtivos entre subsidiária-matriz geram frágeis vínculos sócio produtivos no PIM, implicando em alto controle tanto da mão de obra manauara, quanto da expatriada chinesa. A despeito disso, tem ocorrido um processo de “adequação/injunção” que faz com que algumas “características chinesas” sejam aprofundadas, enquanto outras tenham de sofrer transformações.
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Li, Chuang (Austin). "China's skateboarding youth culture as an emerging cultural industry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34372.

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This thesis focuses on the skateboarding industry in China as both a youth subculture and a cultural industry. I am investigating the transition between the two and examining how the emerging skateboarding industry operates through detailed analysis of the feelings, motivations and meanings attributed to it by its participants and the emerging strata of cultural workers. In order to achieve this research objective, this thesis has positioned the analysis in a triangle of forces between the development of Chinese skateboarding culture, the emerging skateboarding cultural industry and government interventions. This ethnographic study takes into account distinctive characters in the development of Chinese skateboarding communities that signify continuities inside contemporary Chinese youth cultures. I argue that such continuity is still embedded in the organisation of the Chinese skateboarding industry as a cultural industry, in both subcultural and corporate entrepreneurial practices. Moreover, this thesis contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of not only cultural studies but also of the political economic analysis of cultural/creative industries by examining the dynamic incorporations at play between the commercial and governmental forces at the centre of current debate around the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games, and the consequences of the sportisation of skateboarding in mainstream economic structures. Last but not least, this research captures the working conditions of the cultural labourers who are at the forefront of shaping and reshaping the Chinese skateboarding industry.
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"Managing the service workplace: a case study of life insurance industry in Hong Kong." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890337.

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Ip, Chung Yan.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-153).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
ABSTRACT --- p.i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii
CONTENTS --- p.v
Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Empirical Puzzle and Theoretical Questions
Chapter 1.2 --- Casing a Case: The Life Insurance Industry as a Critical Case to Study the Labor Process in Interactive Service Work Organizations
Chapter 1.3 --- Literature Review and Theoretical Framework
Chapter 1.3.1 --- Marxist Labor Process Theories
Chapter 1.3.2 --- Labor Control in Interactive Service Work
Chapter 1.3.3 --- Emotional Labor in Interactive Service Work Context
Chapter 1.3.4 --- The Deterministic Description on the Negative Consequences of Emotional Labor
Chapter 1.3.5 --- The Missing Subject in Labor Process Theory
Chapter 1.3.6 --- "Gender, Work, and Identity"
Chapter 1.4 --- The Research
Chapter 1.5 --- Overview of the Thesis
Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- An Overview of Life Insurance Industry in Hong Kong --- p.27
Chapter 2.1 --- Life Insurance Market in Hong Kong
Chapter 2.2 --- Organizational Structure: Agency Management System
Chapter 2.3 --- The Commission System
Chapter 2.4 --- Nature of Services and Public Perception of the Industry
Chapter 2.5 --- My Cases: Mutual Trust and Synergy
Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Ideological Control in Life Insurance Industry --- p.38
Chapter 3.1 --- Comprehensive and Ail-Round Training: Teaching Practical Sales Techniques and Cultivating a Mind of Success
Chapter 3.2 --- Money and Motivation: Transforming Labor Power into Labor
Chapter 3.3 --- Dedicatory Ethics: Serving Your Clients and Contributing the Society
Chapter 3.4 --- Missionary Sales Personnel: Maximizing Exploitation and Minimizing Resistance
Chapter 3.5 --- Entrepreneurial Spirit and Partnership Metaphor: Securing Profits and Obscuring Control
Chapter 3.6 --- Altruistic Work Culture: Releasing Work Stress and Retaining Agents
Chapter 3.7 --- """Love, Care, and Concern"": Eliciting Cooperation and Generating Consent"
Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Managing the Selves in Selling Life Insurance --- p.76
Chapter 4.1 --- Impression Management or Surface Acting: Doing Trust- and Relationship-Building Activities
Chapter 4.2 --- Deep Acting: Selling Life Insurance plus Selling One's Soul
Chapter 4.3 --- "Managed Feelings: Commercialization of Selves, Human Relations, and Interpersonal Trust"
Chapter 4.4 --- "Alienation, Burnout, and Emotional Exhaustion: Understanding the Negative Consequences of Emotional Labor"
Chapter 4.5 --- Emotions in Relational Service Exchanges: Refining the Concept of Emotional Labor
Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- Searching for the Subjectivities of Life Insurance Agents --- p.106
Chapter 5.1 --- Bringing the Subject Back In: Workers as Victims versus Workers as Actors
Chapter 5.2 --- Shifting Alliances: The Three-Way Dynamics of Control
Chapter 5.3 --- Maintaining a Sense of Self: Gendered Strategies of Resistance
Chapter 5.4 --- Job Satisfaction: Gendering Consent and Autonomy
Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- Theorizing the Labor Process in Service Work Organizations --- p.134
Chapter 6.1 --- Motivations in Work Organizations
Chapter 6.2 --- Three-Way Dynamics of Control
Chapter 6.3 --- A New Form of Emotional Labor
Chapter 6.4 --- Subjects in the Workplace
Chapter 6.5 --- Limitations of the Present Study
Appendix 1 List of Authorized Life Insurers in Hong Kong --- p.141
Appendix 2 Career Path in Life Insurance Industry --- p.143
Appendix 3 Personal Information of Informants --- p.144
Bibliography --- p.146
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Books on the topic "Industrial sociology – China"

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Maurice, Yolles, and Iles Paul, eds. Understanding organizational fitness: The case of China. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Pub., 2011.

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Alltagsstrukturen im Management: Betrachtet aus wirtschaftssoziologischer und sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1994.

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Beringer, Sandra. Guanxi als Erfolgsfaktor: Europäische Unternehmen in China. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007.

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1939-, Walker Anthony, ed. Explaining guanxi: The Chinese business network. New York: Routledge, 2006.

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Wagner, Donald B. Dabieshan: Traditional Chinese iron-production techniques practised in southern Henan in the twentieth century. London: Curzon, 1985.

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Dabieshan: Traditional Chinese iron-production techniques practised in southern Henan in the twentieth century. London: Curzon Press, 1985.

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Chang, Leslie T. Factory girls: From village to city in a changing China. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009.

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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008.

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Chang, Leslie T. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009.

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Chang, Leslie T. Factory Girls. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Industrial sociology – China"

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"26. The Great Divergence: Why Did Industrial Capitalism Emerge in Europe, Not China?" In The Sociology of Development Handbook, 620–44. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520963474-028.

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Wu, Fulong, and Zheng Wang. "Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City." In The City in China, 41–60. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529205473.003.0003.

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The seminal works by Park and the Chicago school of sociology are of great value for studying a rapidly urbanising China characterised by the decline of the formerly socialist structure and the increasing commodification of services and housing. Their assertion that the industrial organisation of cities has substituted primary and neighbourhood relations with secondary relations characterised by anonymity and utilitarianism also resonates with the rising middle-class population in China. However, our chapter contends that certain population groups have not followed the trajectory of change described by Park but instead continue to rely on primary and local social relations due to interventions of the Chinese state. Our argument is supported by a discussion on the varying social relations in Chinese urban neighbourhoods and specifically on the social life of rural migrants in the urban Chinese society.
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