Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415673037
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9781135068028
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary China Series
Content:
This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents' behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of local transformation. Asking questions such as: What types of individual global connections have emerged and developed in China over the last three decades? What aspects of local transformations are influenced by such global connections? How does the impact of global connections vary across different aspects of local communities and institutions? Jiaming Sun uses an original micro-level relational approach to analyse how different types of individual global connections may make a difference and constitute certain outcomes of local transformation, the outcome being that global connections are capable of facilitating local transformation across different spatial, economic, and cultural settings
Note:
Cover -- Chinese Globalization: A profile of people-based global connections in China -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: From the Middle Kingdom to a global power -- China's transformation: a global relational perspective -- The hermit Middle Kingdom and its opening -- Stepping out of the Forbidden City -- From the Silk Road travelers to overseas returnees -- Yiwu: a sea of merchants' transnational actions and connections -- Organization of the book -- 2 Understanding People-Based Global Connections -- Macro-globalization (a macro-perspective on globalization) -- Micro-globalization (a micro-perspective on globalization) -- From glocalization to global-i-zation -- 3 Bringing the individual back into globalization studies -- The global-individual nexus against the global-local nexus -- Illustrations: from connections to consequences -- A Simple Typology: A Socio-Spatial Matrix -- Connections, integration, and transformation -- 4 Chinese global ties from past to present -- Retracing the steps of Marco Polo -- Compradors: the middle men go-betweens -- Missionaries and their Western connections -- The detour from modernization -- Re-entry into the global arena -- 5 Chinese global connections: From Institutions to Individuals -- Making Connections via World Events and Institutions -- Individual transnational actions produce global connections -- 6 Local transformations impacted by global connections -- Architecture: an exhibit of transnational efforts (an external-material type) -- On the back of cross-cultural consumption (an internal-material type) -- Universal holidays celebrated by locals (an external-mental type) -- Value reorientations in globalization (an internal-mental type) -- Summary -- 7 Mosaic: Global connections make differences
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Case 1: Dr. Charles Zhang Chaoyang and Sohu Incorporated -- Case 2: Yigong Shi: returning talent gives country a boost -- Case 3: Dashan and his Canadian-Chinese connections -- Case 4: a foreign coach lifts China's hopes -- Case 5: Western women, Chinese men -- Case 6: coming back home -- Case 7: Shanghai's WuXi PharmaTech -- Case 8: Apollo Technology brought new ideas on banking systems -- Case 9: Beijing Jeep: a Western business in China -- Case 10: US farmers basking in growth of Chinese ties -- 8 The big picture: Chinese globalization -- Recapitulation -- The China model: magnitude of global connections -- Chinese civil globalization: China's style of soft power? -- Summary: methodology issues -- Appendix 1: Questionnaire on Chinese globalization -- Appendix 2: The survey sampling and the data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Sun, Jiaming Chinese Globalization Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415673037
Language:
English
Keywords:
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