Gilded Age
Made in China Yearbook 2017
Edited by: Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere
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Description
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the year of the ‘fire rooster’, an animal often associated with the mythical fenghuang, a magnificently beautiful bird whose appearance is believed to mark the beginning of a new era of peaceful flourishing. Considering the auspicious symbolism surrounding the fenghuang, it is fitting that on 18 October 2017, President Xi Jinping took to the stage of the Nineteenth Party Congress to proclaim the beginning of a ‘new era’ for Chinese socialism. However, in spite of such ecumenical proclamations, it became immediately evident that not all in China would be welcome to reap the rewards promised by the authorities. Migrant workers, for one, remain disposable. Lawyers, activists and even ordinary citizens who dare to express critical views also hardly find a place in Xi’s brave new world. This Yearbook traces the stark new ‘gilded age’ inaugurated by the Chinese Communist Party. It does so through a collection of more than 40 original essays on labour, civil society and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781760461980
- ISBN (online):
- 9781760461997
- Publication date:
- Apr 2018
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.04.2018
- Series:
- Made in China Yearbook
- Co-publisher:
- Australian Centre on China in the World
- Disciplines:
- Business & Economics; Law; Social Sciences: Politics & International Studies, Social Policy & Administration
- Countries:
- East Asia: China
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Introduction
Briefs: Jan–Dec 2017 (PDF, 0.2MB)
Class and Precarity in Contemporary China
- A Genealogy of Precarity and its Ambivalence (PDF, 0.3MB) – Francesca Coin doi
- Work Precarisation and New Inequalities: The Role of Migration (PDF, 0.2MB) – Fabio Perocco doi
- Making Class and Place in Contemporary China (PDF, 0.5MB) – Roberta Zavoretti doi
- Class and Precarity in China: A Contested Relationship (PDF, 0.1MB) – Chris Smith and Pun Ngai doi
- From Dormitory System to Conciliatory Despotism: Changing Labour Regimes in Chinese Factories (PDF, 0.1MB) – Kaxton Siu doi
- The Precarity of Layoffs and State Compensation: The Minimum Livelihood (PDF, 0.3MB) – Dorothy J. Solinger doi
- Collective Bargaining in China is Dead: The Situation is Excellent (PDF, 0.1MB) – Eli Friedman doi
- Collective Bargaining or Universal Basic Income: Which Way Forward for Chinese Workers? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Kevin Lin doi
- Counting Contention (PDF, 0.2MB) – Manfred Elfstrom doi
- Migrants, Mass Arrest, and Resistance in Contemporary China (PDF, 0.5MB) – Ma Tian doi
Chinese Labour in Global Perspective
- Chinese Multinational Corporations in Europe: Racing to the Bottom? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Zheng Yu and Chris Smith doi
- Liquid Labourscape: Ad Hoc Experimentation in a Chinese Special Economic Zone in Laos (PDF, 0.1MB) – Antonella Diana doi
- Outsourcing Exploitation: Chinese And Cambodian Garment Workers Compared (PDF, 0.2MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
- Trade Union Reform in One-party States: China and Vietnam Compared (PDF, 0.1MB) – Anita Chan doi
- Prospects for US-China Union Relations in the Era of Xi and Trump (PDF, 0.1MB) – Katie Quan doi
- #Islaveat10 (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jenny Chan doi
- Treating What Ails the Study of Chinese Politics (PDF, 0.2MB) – William Hurst doi
The End of Chinese Civil Society?
- Conceptual Confusion in the Research on Chinese Civil Society (PDF, 0.1MB) – Taru Salmenkari doi
- China’s Social Organisations After the Charity Law (PDF, 0.1MB) – Karla W. Simon and Holly Snape doi
- The Rise of Foundations: Hope for Grassroots Civil Society in China? (PDF, 0.2MB) – Jessica C. Teets doi
- What Future is There for Human Rights Lawyering in China? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Fu Hualing doi
- The Mental Health Costs of Repression (PDF, 0.2MB) – Nicola Macbean doi
- Snapshots of China’s ‘Uncivil Society’ (PDF, 0.1MB) – Børge Bakken doi
- Slaving Away: The ‘Black Brick Kilns Scandal’ Ten Years On (PDF, 0.3MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
Chinese Environment and the Commons
- A Water Commons in China? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Andrea E. Pia doi
- Amateurism and Our Common Concern for Biodiversity (PDF, 0.1MB) – Timothy Mclellan doi
- Commons and the Right to the City in Contemporary China (PDF, 0.2MB) – Carlo Inverardi-Ferri doi
- Burning Coal in Tangshan: Energy Resources as Commons (PDF, 0.2MB) – Edwin Schmitt doi
- Protecting Sacred Commons: Balancing Commodity Viticulture Economies with Ecological Health in Shangri-La (PDF, 0.2MB) – Brendan A. Galipeau doi
- China’s Environmental Crackdown: The Case of Chengdu (PDF, 0.5MB) – Daniel Fuchs and Edwin Schmitt doi
Window on Asia
- In the Absence of a Peasantry, What, Then, is a Hong Kong Farmer? (PDF, 0.2MB) – Loretta Ieng Tak Lou doi
- Burmese Civil Society Challenges China’s Development Assistance in Myanmar (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jennifer Y.J. Hsu doi
- Boom or Bust in China’s Jade Trade in Myanmar? (PDF, 0.2MB) – Henrik Kloppenborg Møller doi
- Indian Labour Movements Under Modi (PDF, 0.1MB) – Tom Barnes doi
- In the Shadow of Kem Ley: Is Civil Society the Solution to Cambodia’s Woes (PDF, 0.3MB) – Astrid Norén-Nilsson doi
Work of Arts
- Ai Weiwei’s #Refugees: A Transcultural and Transmedia Journey (PDF, 0.2MB) – Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg doi
- Ren Hang: Bodies Without Redemption (PDF, 0.4MB) – Chen Shuxia doi
- Losing the World: After the Moose Have Gone Away (PDF, 0.2MB) – Christian Sorace doi
- Datong, Forever in Limbo (PDF, 0.2MB) – Jonathan J. Kinkel doi
- China’s Industrial Heritage Without History (PDF, 0.2MB) – Maris Boyd Gillette doi
- Industrial Landscapes of Socialist Realism (PDF, 0.8MB) – Craig A. Smith doi
- Collecting the Red Era in Contemporary China (PDF, 0.5MB) – Emily Williams doi
- Resurrecting the Dead (PDF, 0.2MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
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