Nightwork in Chengdu
Kenneth Pomeranz: China’s Capitalism, 18 February 2016
China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower
by Linda Yueh.
Oxford, 349 pp., £29.99, April 2013,978 0 19 920578 3 Show More
by Linda Yueh.
Oxford, 349 pp., £29.99, April 2013,
The Rise of the People’s Bank of China: The Politics of Institutional Change
by Stephen Bell and Hui Feng.
Harvard, 374 pp., £40.95, June 2013,978 0 674 07249 7 Show More
by Stephen Bell and Hui Feng.
Harvard, 374 pp., £40.95, June 2013,
The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China
by You-tien Hsing.
Oxford, 272 pp., £27.50, March 2012,978 0 19 964459 9 Show More
by You-tien Hsing.
Oxford, 272 pp., £27.50, March 2012,
Constructing China’s Capitalism: Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries
by Daniel Buck.
Macmillan, 267 pp., £55, July 2012,978 0 230 34095 4 Show More
by Daniel Buck.
Macmillan, 267 pp., £55, July 2012,
Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China’s New Rich
by John Osburg.
Stanford, 248 pp., £15.99, April 2013,978 0 8047 8354 5 Show More
by John Osburg.
Stanford, 248 pp., £15.99, April 2013,
“... function differently during periods of rapid growth and periods of retrenchment. Anxious Wealth, John Osburg’s ethnography of ‘business entertaining’ in Chengdu, complements Buck’s book by showing how the social connections Buck says are so important come about and are maintained, and how they aid or hinder market transactions. His informants ... ”
