- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Maps
-
Part 1 Tracing Meaningful Life-Worlds -
1 Reflections on Historical Anthropology -
2 Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China -
Part 2 Moving Targets -
3 Images -
4 China’s Century -
Part 3 Structuring and Human Agency -
5 Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town -
6 Recycling Rituals -
7 Reconstituting Dowry and Brideprice in South China -
Part 4 Culturing Power -
8 Recycling Tradition -
9 Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan -
10 The Grounding of Cosmopolitans -
Part 5 History between the Lines -
11 Where Were the Women? -
12 Social Responsibility and Self-Expression -
Part 6 Place-Making: Locality and Translocality -
13 Subverting Lineage Power -
14 The Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China -
15 Positioning “Hong Kongers” and “New Immigrants” -
16 Grounding Displacement -
Part 7 Historical Global and the Asian Postmodern -
17 Hong Kong -
18 Women of Influence -
19 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban Postmodern - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town
Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town
- Chapter:
- (p.73) 5 Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town
- Source:
- Tracing China
- Author(s):
Helen F. Siu
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
The problems of economic liberalization in a market town in south China raise theoretical and empirical questions concerning the role of the state at the local level, both in the past and in the present. The failure of the party-state to disengage itself from society today is due to an administrative history to the unfolding of which the town residents have contributed their efforts. In an era of entrepreneurial vigor that is promoted officially, social life and economic choices continue to be guided by manipulations of and around bureaucratic power. State and local society have interpenetrated each other in ways that are overlooked by binary conceptual schemes that emphasize their mechanical opposition. What we have here is an example of “state involution,” of their inextricable interlocking.
Keywords: Rural-urban divide, China, Hong Kong, Anthropology, Social changes, Political changes, Identity formation, History, Culture, modernity
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Maps
-
Part 1 Tracing Meaningful Life-Worlds -
1 Reflections on Historical Anthropology -
2 Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China -
Part 2 Moving Targets -
3 Images -
4 China’s Century -
Part 3 Structuring and Human Agency -
5 Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town -
6 Recycling Rituals -
7 Reconstituting Dowry and Brideprice in South China -
Part 4 Culturing Power -
8 Recycling Tradition -
9 Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan -
10 The Grounding of Cosmopolitans -
Part 5 History between the Lines -
11 Where Were the Women? -
12 Social Responsibility and Self-Expression -
Part 6 Place-Making: Locality and Translocality -
13 Subverting Lineage Power -
14 The Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China -
15 Positioning “Hong Kongers” and “New Immigrants” -
16 Grounding Displacement -
Part 7 Historical Global and the Asian Postmodern -
17 Hong Kong -
18 Women of Influence -
19 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban Postmodern - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
