Transcending boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : Zhejiangcun : the story of a migrant village in Beijing / / by Xiang Biao ; translated by Jim Weldon

• Autore: Xiang Biao
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 951/.156
• Soggetto topico: Migration, Internal - China - Zhejiangcun (Beijing)
• Soggetto geografico: Zhejiangcun (Beijing, China) Description and travel; Beijing (China) Description and travel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 with the State.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transcending boundaries
• ISBN: 1-280-86745-0; 9786610867455; 1-4294-5258-7; 90-474-0679-6; 1-4337-0760-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784185003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; ; v. 5.