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With China's Open Door Policy and economic reforms after 1978, private business was allowed to rise and become a vital social and economic factor. This anthropological study follows the community of private business households (geti hu) in Chengdu, Sichuan, from 1987 to 1991. Bruun gives an account of the people, their private businesses, and their relationship with bureacracy in a small neighborhood within a contemporary Chinese urban area. He looks at the effect of fundamental Chinese values and ideologies on business and bureaucracy.
Price: $25.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date:
01 January 1993
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290427
Format: Paperback
Ole Bruun is professor of society and globalization at Roskilde University. At the time of this book's publication, he was a researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Denmark.
Education: Ph.D. University of Copenhagen
Acknowledgements – vii
Maps – x
1. Methodology and Fieldwork – 1
2. Chang Shun Street and Market Area – 17
3. Enterprising Households – 37
4. The Cultural Economics of Labor – 73
5. The Continuity of Bureaucratic Power – 109
6. The Young in Business – 143
7. A New Cycle of Business – 175
8. The Dialectics of Household Strategies – 203
9. Conclusion – 237
Notes – 243
References – 265
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