Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City
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Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City

An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China

  1. 289 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City

An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notes to this edition
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Figures
  8. 1. Methodology and Fieldwork
  9. 2. Chang Shun Street and Market Area
  10. 3. Enterprising Households
  11. 4. The Cultural Economics of Labor
  12. 5. The Continuity of Bureaucratic Power
  13. 6. The Young in Business
  14. 7. A New Cycle of Business
  15. 8. The Dialectics of Household Strategies
  16. 9. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Back cover

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