- 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
Grounding Displacement
Grounding Displacement
Uncivil Urban Spaces in Post-Reform South China
- Chapter:
- (p.353) 16 Grounding Displacement
- Source:
- Tracing China
- Author(s):
Helen F. Siu
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This historical-ethnographic study of village enclaves in Guangzhou explores the intensified entrenchment of villagers in a Maoist past when they faced market fluidities of a post-reform present. It underscores a rural–urban spatiality and a cultural divide between villagers, migrants, and urbanites that are simultaneously transgressed and reinforced. It highlights discursive categories and institutional practices that incarcerate the residents, who juggle lingering socialist parameters with compelling market forces and state development priorities. Connectivity and exclusion, agency and victimization, groundedness and dislocation as lived experience are captured by the historically thick social ethos in the enclaves. This article rethinks issues of emplacement and displacement, dichotomy, and process.
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