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The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace Hardcover - 2017
by Gordon Mathews; Linessa Dan Lin; Yang Yang
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- Title The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace
- Author Gordon Mathews; Linessa Dan Lin; Yang Yang
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2017
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226506074 / 022650607X
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Guangzhou (China) - Ethnic relations, Africans - China - Guangzhou
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017018769
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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New. Mere decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of those migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods often knock-offs or copies of high-end branded items to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became such a center of "low-end" globalization and shows what we can learn from that experience similar transformations elsewhere in the world. Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans that don't share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their…
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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.
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