Nanshan Zhong and Guangqiao Zeng
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198568193
- eISBN:
- 9780191718175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568193.003.0005
- Subject:
- Biology, Disease Ecology / Epidemiology
SARS originated from the Guangdong province of China where it emerged in the autumn of 2002. This chapter presents data that show that there may have been interspecies transmission between wild ...
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SARS originated from the Guangdong province of China where it emerged in the autumn of 2002. This chapter presents data that show that there may have been interspecies transmission between wild animals (e.g., Himalayan Palm Civets) and human beings. It describes the ensuing public health measures that were implemented, the treatment of cases, and the development of an inactivated SARS vaccine.Less
SARS originated from the Guangdong province of China where it emerged in the autumn of 2002. This chapter presents data that show that there may have been interspecies transmission between wild animals (e.g., Himalayan Palm Civets) and human beings. It describes the ensuing public health measures that were implemented, the treatment of cases, and the development of an inactivated SARS vaccine.
Chris Bramall
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199275939
- eISBN:
- 9780191706073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275939.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
There is an extensive literature which discusses the growth of rural industry in China. However, these focus on the role played by changes to government policy. In doing so, historical factors are ...
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There is an extensive literature which discusses the growth of rural industry in China. However, these focus on the role played by changes to government policy. In doing so, historical factors are largely ignored. This book rectifies this by documenting the extent of rural industrialization and learning-by-doing that had already occurred by 1978. It then tests the hypothesis that Maoist skill legacies played a crucial role in the post-1978 growth process using data on all of China’s 2,000 plus counties and with more detailed data on three provinces (Guangdong, Sichuan, and Jiangsu).Less
There is an extensive literature which discusses the growth of rural industry in China. However, these focus on the role played by changes to government policy. In doing so, historical factors are largely ignored. This book rectifies this by documenting the extent of rural industrialization and learning-by-doing that had already occurred by 1978. It then tests the hypothesis that Maoist skill legacies played a crucial role in the post-1978 growth process using data on all of China’s 2,000 plus counties and with more detailed data on three provinces (Guangdong, Sichuan, and Jiangsu).
Helen F. Siu
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099692
- eISBN:
- 9789882207189
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099692.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Historians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hierarchies are juxtaposed with unorthodox trading cultures, multi-ethnic colonial ...
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Historians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hierarchies are juxtaposed with unorthodox trading cultures, multi-ethnic colonial encounters, and market-driven consumption. The divergent paths taken by women in Hong Kong and Guangdong during thirty years of Maoist closure, and the post-reform cross-border fluidities have also gained analytical attention. This book provides further theoretical application of a “regional construct” that appreciates process, transcends definitive powers of administrative borders, and brings out nuanced gender notions. The book uses fine-grained historical and ethnographic materials to map out three crucial historical junctures in the evolution of South China, from late imperial to contemporary periods that have significantly shaped the construction of gendered space. Stressing process and human agency, this book uses women's experiences to challenge dichotomous analytical perspectives on lineage patriarchy, colonial institutions, power, and social activism. The book refocuses attention on cultural dynamics in the South China region of which Hong Kong is an integral part, and illuminates the analytical importance of long historical periods in which layers of social, political, and economic activities intersected to constitute the complicated positioning of women.Less
Historians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hierarchies are juxtaposed with unorthodox trading cultures, multi-ethnic colonial encounters, and market-driven consumption. The divergent paths taken by women in Hong Kong and Guangdong during thirty years of Maoist closure, and the post-reform cross-border fluidities have also gained analytical attention. This book provides further theoretical application of a “regional construct” that appreciates process, transcends definitive powers of administrative borders, and brings out nuanced gender notions. The book uses fine-grained historical and ethnographic materials to map out three crucial historical junctures in the evolution of South China, from late imperial to contemporary periods that have significantly shaped the construction of gendered space. Stressing process and human agency, this book uses women's experiences to challenge dichotomous analytical perspectives on lineage patriarchy, colonial institutions, power, and social activism. The book refocuses attention on cultural dynamics in the South China region of which Hong Kong is an integral part, and illuminates the analytical importance of long historical periods in which layers of social, political, and economic activities intersected to constitute the complicated positioning of women.
Jaap Goudsmit
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195130348
- eISBN:
- 9780199790166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195130348.003.0011
- Subject:
- Biology, Microbiology
This chapter discusses the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, which originated from Guangdong Province in China. Topics covered include symptoms, spread of the virus, and research on the ...
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This chapter discusses the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, which originated from Guangdong Province in China. Topics covered include symptoms, spread of the virus, and research on the SARS virus.Less
This chapter discusses the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, which originated from Guangdong Province in China. Topics covered include symptoms, spread of the virus, and research on the SARS virus.
Ching Kwan Lee
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520211254
- eISBN:
- 9780520920040
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520211254.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, ...
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Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and south China, both women are also participating in the spectacular economic transformation that has come to be called the South China miracle. Yet, as this book demonstrates in its unique and fascinating study of women workers on either side of the Chinese–Hong Kong border, the working lives and factory cultures of these women are vastly different. This comparative ethnography describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. In Hong Kong, “matron workers” remain in factories for decades. In Guangdong, a seemingly endless number of young “maiden workers” travel to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of higher wages. Whereas the women in Hong Kong participate in a management system characterized by “familial hegemony,” the young women in Guangdong find an internal system of power based on regional politics and kin connections, or “localistic despotism.” The book concludes that it is primarily the differences in the gender politics of the two labor markets that determine the culture of each factory. It argues that gender plays a crucial role in the cultures and management strategies of factories that rely heavily on women workers.Less
Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and south China, both women are also participating in the spectacular economic transformation that has come to be called the South China miracle. Yet, as this book demonstrates in its unique and fascinating study of women workers on either side of the Chinese–Hong Kong border, the working lives and factory cultures of these women are vastly different. This comparative ethnography describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. In Hong Kong, “matron workers” remain in factories for decades. In Guangdong, a seemingly endless number of young “maiden workers” travel to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of higher wages. Whereas the women in Hong Kong participate in a management system characterized by “familial hegemony,” the young women in Guangdong find an internal system of power based on regional politics and kin connections, or “localistic despotism.” The book concludes that it is primarily the differences in the gender politics of the two labor markets that determine the culture of each factory. It argues that gender plays a crucial role in the cultures and management strategies of factories that rely heavily on women workers.
Chris Bramall
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198296973
- eISBN:
- 9780191596018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198296975.003.0015
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, South and East Asia
A feature of transition‐era China was the opening‐up of the economy to foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Both factors played a role in the growth process, especially in Guangdong province. ...
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A feature of transition‐era China was the opening‐up of the economy to foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Both factors played a role in the growth process, especially in Guangdong province. Nevertheless, it is shown in this chapter that Chinese growth was not export‐led; in purely quantitative terms, neither foreign trade nor investment was large enough in relation to the Chinese economy to explain growth. The very fact that growth accelerated across the whole of the People's Republic, whereas the impact of the open door strategy was confined almost exclusively to the south‐eastern provinces, demonstrates that internal factors were the prime mover in the growth process. Indeed, without heavy state investment in Shenzhen and other special economic zones, it is unlikely that even Guangdong could have grown so quickly.Less
A feature of transition‐era China was the opening‐up of the economy to foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Both factors played a role in the growth process, especially in Guangdong province. Nevertheless, it is shown in this chapter that Chinese growth was not export‐led; in purely quantitative terms, neither foreign trade nor investment was large enough in relation to the Chinese economy to explain growth. The very fact that growth accelerated across the whole of the People's Republic, whereas the impact of the open door strategy was confined almost exclusively to the south‐eastern provinces, demonstrates that internal factors were the prime mover in the growth process. Indeed, without heavy state investment in Shenzhen and other special economic zones, it is unlikely that even Guangdong could have grown so quickly.
Robert J. Antony
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208951
- eISBN:
- 9789888390052
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208951.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Unruly People shows that in mid-Qing Guangdong banditry occurred mainly in the densely populated core Canton delta where state power was strongest, challenging the conventional wisdom that banditry ...
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Unruly People shows that in mid-Qing Guangdong banditry occurred mainly in the densely populated core Canton delta where state power was strongest, challenging the conventional wisdom that banditry was most prevalent in peripheral areas. Through extensive archival research, Antony reveals that this is because the local working poor had no other options to ensure their livelihood.
In 1780 the Qing government enacted the first of a series of special laws to deal specifically with Guangdong bandits who plundered on land and water. The new law was prompted by what officials described as a spiraling “bandit miasma” in the province that had been simmering for decades. To understand the need for the special laws, Unruly People takes a closer look at the complex relationships and interconnections between bandits, sworn brotherhoods, local communities, and the Qing state in Guangdong from 1760 to 1845.
Antony treats collective crime as a symptom of the dysfunction in local society and breakdown of the imperial legal system. He analyzes over 2,300 criminal cases found in palace and routine memorials in the Qing archives, as well as extant Chinese literary and foreign sources and fieldwork in rural Guangdong, to recreate vivid details of late imperial China’s underworld of crime and violence.Less
Unruly People shows that in mid-Qing Guangdong banditry occurred mainly in the densely populated core Canton delta where state power was strongest, challenging the conventional wisdom that banditry was most prevalent in peripheral areas. Through extensive archival research, Antony reveals that this is because the local working poor had no other options to ensure their livelihood.
In 1780 the Qing government enacted the first of a series of special laws to deal specifically with Guangdong bandits who plundered on land and water. The new law was prompted by what officials described as a spiraling “bandit miasma” in the province that had been simmering for decades. To understand the need for the special laws, Unruly People takes a closer look at the complex relationships and interconnections between bandits, sworn brotherhoods, local communities, and the Qing state in Guangdong from 1760 to 1845.
Antony treats collective crime as a symptom of the dysfunction in local society and breakdown of the imperial legal system. He analyzes over 2,300 criminal cases found in palace and routine memorials in the Qing archives, as well as extant Chinese literary and foreign sources and fieldwork in rural Guangdong, to recreate vivid details of late imperial China’s underworld of crime and violence.
May Bo Ching
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099180
- eISBN:
- 9789882206984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099180.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
To evaluate Hong Kong's positioning for its residents, past and present, a regional cultural context is essential. By the 1920s, established Guangdong merchants in Shanghai patronized their native ...
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To evaluate Hong Kong's positioning for its residents, past and present, a regional cultural context is essential. By the 1920s, established Guangdong merchants in Shanghai patronized their native place activities through their regional associations, martial arts and athletic societies, theaters, and department stores. It was under these circumstances in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, in a spirit of openness and adventure, that instrumental music, songs, and operas identified as Cantonese flourished. New artistic talents, supported by cosmopolitan mercantile interests, absorbed fresh nutrients from Western and other regional traditions. These cultural energies gave the region a competitive edge as China's window to the world. It allowed Hong Kong residents and business interests a hinterland far beyond Hong Kong's physical and administrative boundaries. Residents strategically used different cultural codes of conduct for economic survival and social advancement.Less
To evaluate Hong Kong's positioning for its residents, past and present, a regional cultural context is essential. By the 1920s, established Guangdong merchants in Shanghai patronized their native place activities through their regional associations, martial arts and athletic societies, theaters, and department stores. It was under these circumstances in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, in a spirit of openness and adventure, that instrumental music, songs, and operas identified as Cantonese flourished. New artistic talents, supported by cosmopolitan mercantile interests, absorbed fresh nutrients from Western and other regional traditions. These cultural energies gave the region a competitive edge as China's window to the world. It allowed Hong Kong residents and business interests a hinterland far beyond Hong Kong's physical and administrative boundaries. Residents strategically used different cultural codes of conduct for economic survival and social advancement.
Helen F. Siu (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099692
- eISBN:
- 9789882207189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099692.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter demonstrates the various mobility strategies of women in Guangdong during the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution is characterized by the unusual power of the official rhetoric ...
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This chapter demonstrates the various mobility strategies of women in Guangdong during the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution is characterized by the unusual power of the official rhetoric of revolution, which pushed capitalism to the extreme opposite side of the party line. The rhetoric surrounding the image of the steel maiden demanded conformity, but through the women's individual strategies of using this image, they found fulfillment in their own complicated lives.Less
This chapter demonstrates the various mobility strategies of women in Guangdong during the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution is characterized by the unusual power of the official rhetoric of revolution, which pushed capitalism to the extreme opposite side of the party line. The rhetoric surrounding the image of the steel maiden demanded conformity, but through the women's individual strategies of using this image, they found fulfillment in their own complicated lives.
Marjorie Topley
Jean DeBernardi (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028146
- eISBN:
- 9789882206663
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028146.003.0013
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter focuses on master farmers growing rice or vegetables as principal crops. Specialization in vegetable-growing is largely the concern of immigrants, while indigenous farmers, that is ...
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This chapter focuses on master farmers growing rice or vegetables as principal crops. Specialization in vegetable-growing is largely the concern of immigrants, while indigenous farmers, that is people whose ancestors settled in the area generations ago, still specialize mainly in rice production. Rice was formerly the traditional crop of the New Territories, but has declined in importance in the last decade, giving way to market gardening. Increased vegetable production has been carried out mainly on former paddy land. The encouragement to change in farming patterns has been provided by the growth of urban areas since the war, and has been almost entirely due to efforts of immigrants from the vegetable-specializing areas of Kwangtung [Guangdong] province. The first large influx of these farmers was about 1937 when the Japanese invaded South China. Since the establishment of the present regime in China, their numbers have increased considerably.Less
This chapter focuses on master farmers growing rice or vegetables as principal crops. Specialization in vegetable-growing is largely the concern of immigrants, while indigenous farmers, that is people whose ancestors settled in the area generations ago, still specialize mainly in rice production. Rice was formerly the traditional crop of the New Territories, but has declined in importance in the last decade, giving way to market gardening. Increased vegetable production has been carried out mainly on former paddy land. The encouragement to change in farming patterns has been provided by the growth of urban areas since the war, and has been almost entirely due to efforts of immigrants from the vegetable-specializing areas of Kwangtung [Guangdong] province. The first large influx of these farmers was about 1937 when the Japanese invaded South China. Since the establishment of the present regime in China, their numbers have increased considerably.
Helen F. Siu (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099692
- eISBN:
- 9789882207189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099692.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines women in Chaozhou (eastern Guangdong) during the late imperial and early Republican periods. It uses Chaozhou as an example to argue firstly that economic determination cannot ...
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This chapter examines women in Chaozhou (eastern Guangdong) during the late imperial and early Republican periods. It uses Chaozhou as an example to argue firstly that economic determination cannot explain why women in mainland China, though given chance and capital, could not enter the public sphere of the business world, and secondly, that in order to enter the business world, it was dependent on the degree of institutional protection a woman, just as men, received, rather than gender per se. The chapter also analyzes the opportunities that might have allowed women to step out from the family and discusses how such opportunities were subordinate to male social ethics.Less
This chapter examines women in Chaozhou (eastern Guangdong) during the late imperial and early Republican periods. It uses Chaozhou as an example to argue firstly that economic determination cannot explain why women in mainland China, though given chance and capital, could not enter the public sphere of the business world, and secondly, that in order to enter the business world, it was dependent on the degree of institutional protection a woman, just as men, received, rather than gender per se. The chapter also analyzes the opportunities that might have allowed women to step out from the family and discusses how such opportunities were subordinate to male social ethics.
Edward J. M. Rhoads
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028863
- eISBN:
- 9789882207424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028863.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Two Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) branches were established in China — one in Shanghai (the Going Abroad Bureau) and the other, later on, in the United States. The first important task of the CEM ...
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Two Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) branches were established in China — one in Shanghai (the Going Abroad Bureau) and the other, later on, in the United States. The first important task of the CEM was to identify prospective candidates to take part. The final guidelines specified that the boys meet the following criteria — they were between twelve and sixteen years of age, had studied Chinese books for several years, had their family's permission to go abroad for an extended period of time, were not the only son in their family, and ethnically could be either Manchu or Han. They were all boys and all Han. Most of them came from Guangdong. This geographical imbalance resulted from the great difficulty the CEM had in finding willing participants. Many were related to at least one other member of the CEM by kinship and/or native-place ties. The Chinese elites were not interested in studying abroad.Less
Two Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) branches were established in China — one in Shanghai (the Going Abroad Bureau) and the other, later on, in the United States. The first important task of the CEM was to identify prospective candidates to take part. The final guidelines specified that the boys meet the following criteria — they were between twelve and sixteen years of age, had studied Chinese books for several years, had their family's permission to go abroad for an extended period of time, were not the only son in their family, and ethnically could be either Manchu or Han. They were all boys and all Han. Most of them came from Guangdong. This geographical imbalance resulted from the great difficulty the CEM had in finding willing participants. Many were related to at least one other member of the CEM by kinship and/or native-place ties. The Chinese elites were not interested in studying abroad.
Ching Kwan Lee
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520211254
- eISBN:
- 9780520920040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520211254.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter turns to a parallel analysis of the labor market in Hong Kong. A comparison with the conditions in Shenzhen elucidates the role of the social organization of the labor market in ...
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This chapter turns to a parallel analysis of the labor market in Hong Kong. A comparison with the conditions in Shenzhen elucidates the role of the social organization of the labor market in accounting for the different gendered regimes of production. The chapter states that women's adaptation to factory employment had a logic that was consequential for the pattern of the shop-floor politics they engaged in and helped to shape. Such logic and consequences had roots in the Hong Kong labor market, which was structured and organized in very different ways from that of Shenzhen. Hong Kong's deindustrialization since the 1980s occurred in tandem with Guangdong's industrialization. The shrinking manufacturing labor market was both the cause and the consequence of deindustrialization. Survey after survey saw employers citing the labor shortage as a major reason for relocating their production lines into mainland China.Less
This chapter turns to a parallel analysis of the labor market in Hong Kong. A comparison with the conditions in Shenzhen elucidates the role of the social organization of the labor market in accounting for the different gendered regimes of production. The chapter states that women's adaptation to factory employment had a logic that was consequential for the pattern of the shop-floor politics they engaged in and helped to shape. Such logic and consequences had roots in the Hong Kong labor market, which was structured and organized in very different ways from that of Shenzhen. Hong Kong's deindustrialization since the 1980s occurred in tandem with Guangdong's industrialization. The shrinking manufacturing labor market was both the cause and the consequence of deindustrialization. Survey after survey saw employers citing the labor shortage as a major reason for relocating their production lines into mainland China.
Yousong Wang, Pin Hou, Yihong Lin, and Yan Zhang
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028504
- eISBN:
- 9789882206717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028504.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter analyses the development of the construction industry in the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD). It establishes an assessment system, covering resources, processes, efficiency, and ...
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This chapter analyses the development of the construction industry in the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD). It establishes an assessment system, covering resources, processes, efficiency, and environmental factors, to evaluate and rank the competitiveness of the construction industry in the nine mainland provinces of the Pan-PRD. The results show that the overall competitiveness of the construction industry is relatively higher in Guangdong, Hainan, and Hunan provinces and relatively lower in Guangxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Guizhou provinces. The chapter concludes with recommendations for enhancing competitiveness at the regional level.Less
This chapter analyses the development of the construction industry in the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD). It establishes an assessment system, covering resources, processes, efficiency, and environmental factors, to evaluate and rank the competitiveness of the construction industry in the nine mainland provinces of the Pan-PRD. The results show that the overall competitiveness of the construction industry is relatively higher in Guangdong, Hainan, and Hunan provinces and relatively lower in Guangxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Guizhou provinces. The chapter concludes with recommendations for enhancing competitiveness at the regional level.
Ellen Oxfeld
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520260948
- eISBN:
- 9780520945876
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520260948.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
While many have studied China's recent rise as an economic power, China itself does not exist solely in the economic realm. Ordinary Chinese still place intense value on moral obligations and the ...
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While many have studied China's recent rise as an economic power, China itself does not exist solely in the economic realm. Ordinary Chinese still place intense value on moral obligations and the nature of the social ties that connect them to others. This study explores the moral sphere as a key to understanding how rural Chinese experience and talk about their lives in this period of rapid economic transformation. The author, who spent time in a village in southeast China's Guangdong Province over the course of a decade and a half, examines both continuities and changes in the local culture. Although some have suggested that the reform period in China has been characterized by moral cynicism, this book finds that villagers appeal to a vibrant array of moral discourses when choosing a path of personal action or evaluating the behavior of others.Less
While many have studied China's recent rise as an economic power, China itself does not exist solely in the economic realm. Ordinary Chinese still place intense value on moral obligations and the nature of the social ties that connect them to others. This study explores the moral sphere as a key to understanding how rural Chinese experience and talk about their lives in this period of rapid economic transformation. The author, who spent time in a village in southeast China's Guangdong Province over the course of a decade and a half, examines both continuities and changes in the local culture. Although some have suggested that the reform period in China has been characterized by moral cynicism, this book finds that villagers appeal to a vibrant array of moral discourses when choosing a path of personal action or evaluating the behavior of others.
Baojun Yang and Dongxiao Jin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028504
- eISBN:
- 9789882206717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028504.003.0005
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter discusses the Pearl River Delta Urban Cluster Coordinated Development Plan (2004–20) (UCCDP). It discusses how this plan evolved out of the joint efforts of the Guangdong Provincial ...
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This chapter discusses the Pearl River Delta Urban Cluster Coordinated Development Plan (2004–20) (UCCDP). It discusses how this plan evolved out of the joint efforts of the Guangdong Provincial Government and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to strengthen Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD) coordination and enhance the competitiveness of the PRD city cluster. It examines the background, methodology, objectives, significance, and implementation process of the plan to aid in the further understanding of the theory and practice of mega-city regional governance and planning in contemporary China.Less
This chapter discusses the Pearl River Delta Urban Cluster Coordinated Development Plan (2004–20) (UCCDP). It discusses how this plan evolved out of the joint efforts of the Guangdong Provincial Government and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to strengthen Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD) coordination and enhance the competitiveness of the PRD city cluster. It examines the background, methodology, objectives, significance, and implementation process of the plan to aid in the further understanding of the theory and practice of mega-city regional governance and planning in contemporary China.
Brad Wong
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520223400
- eISBN:
- 9780520924918
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520223400.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Brad Wong narrates his visit to his grandfather's village in Long An, just a few miles outside Taishan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. He details his feelings and discoveries during ...
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Brad Wong narrates his visit to his grandfather's village in Long An, just a few miles outside Taishan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. He details his feelings and discoveries during his visit, and also tells of how his family moved to the United States and obtained U.S. citizenship. Brad talks about the expectations of his relatives in China, and how he learned that people there have a tradition of their overseas Chinese relatives helping them financially. He details the hardships experienced by all of the people in China, and how the government could not support its citizens.Less
Brad Wong narrates his visit to his grandfather's village in Long An, just a few miles outside Taishan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. He details his feelings and discoveries during his visit, and also tells of how his family moved to the United States and obtained U.S. citizenship. Brad talks about the expectations of his relatives in China, and how he learned that people there have a tradition of their overseas Chinese relatives helping them financially. He details the hardships experienced by all of the people in China, and how the government could not support its citizens.
F Siu Helen
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520219236
- eISBN:
- 9780520924413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520219236.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter focuses on the merchants and local culture in the Pearl River delta in Guangdong, China. It suggests that the merchants of the Pearl River delta were no more engaged in Republican ...
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This chapter focuses on the merchants and local culture in the Pearl River delta in Guangdong, China. It suggests that the merchants of the Pearl River delta were no more engaged in Republican politics than Tianjin professional elites and explains that the leading merchants were able to create vigorous dialogues with the state by engaging in a language of orthodoxy. It argues that the mercantile cultural cosmopolitanism of maritime China rose in tandem with the decline of the foreign sovereign power of the old continental empire.Less
This chapter focuses on the merchants and local culture in the Pearl River delta in Guangdong, China. It suggests that the merchants of the Pearl River delta were no more engaged in Republican politics than Tianjin professional elites and explains that the leading merchants were able to create vigorous dialogues with the state by engaging in a language of orthodoxy. It argues that the mercantile cultural cosmopolitanism of maritime China rose in tandem with the decline of the foreign sovereign power of the old continental empire.
Ching Kwan Lee
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520211254
- eISBN:
- 9780520920040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520211254.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Since the mid-1980s, China has become the world's new “global factory,” with the southern province of Guangdong (including Hong Kong) as its powerhouse. Millions of women workers are toiling in sweat ...
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Since the mid-1980s, China has become the world's new “global factory,” with the southern province of Guangdong (including Hong Kong) as its powerhouse. Millions of women workers are toiling in sweat shops and modern factories, churning out Mickey Mouse toys, Barbie dolls, Nike sports shoes, Apple jeans, watches, radios, televisions, and computers for worldwide consumption. These mass production commodities may be highly standardized, but the factory regimes that produce them, which spring up along the trail of mobile international capital, are not. The stories of two Chinese women, Yukling and Chi-ying, highlight both the differences and the similarities between the worlds of labor where the south China economic miracle is manufactured, and where labor politics and women's identities are made and remade.Less
Since the mid-1980s, China has become the world's new “global factory,” with the southern province of Guangdong (including Hong Kong) as its powerhouse. Millions of women workers are toiling in sweat shops and modern factories, churning out Mickey Mouse toys, Barbie dolls, Nike sports shoes, Apple jeans, watches, radios, televisions, and computers for worldwide consumption. These mass production commodities may be highly standardized, but the factory regimes that produce them, which spring up along the trail of mobile international capital, are not. The stories of two Chinese women, Yukling and Chi-ying, highlight both the differences and the similarities between the worlds of labor where the south China economic miracle is manufactured, and where labor politics and women's identities are made and remade.
Roderick MacFarquhar
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192149978
- eISBN:
- 9780191670084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192149978.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter examines the Sixty Articles on Agriculture launched by the Chinese government to relieve the famine, establish an incentive system in the commune system, and reinvigorate agriculture. ...
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This chapter examines the Sixty Articles on Agriculture launched by the Chinese government to relieve the famine, establish an incentive system in the commune system, and reinvigorate agriculture. Immediately after the Ninth Plenum, Chairman Mao gave detailed instructions for the immediate organization and dispatch of three seven-man teams to investigate communes in Guangdong, Hunan, and Zhejiang. After receiving the reports on the investigating teams, Mao already appeared to be willing to consider drastic reform of the communes.Less
This chapter examines the Sixty Articles on Agriculture launched by the Chinese government to relieve the famine, establish an incentive system in the commune system, and reinvigorate agriculture. Immediately after the Ninth Plenum, Chairman Mao gave detailed instructions for the immediate organization and dispatch of three seven-man teams to investigate communes in Guangdong, Hunan, and Zhejiang. After receiving the reports on the investigating teams, Mao already appeared to be willing to consider drastic reform of the communes.
