[Book Review] The New Achievements has been made in the Study of Female Crimes in Modern China -A Book Review on Associate Professor Ai Jing's The Research on Rural Social Changes and Female Crimes in Modern Northeast China (1901-1931)

2020 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 231-235
Author(s):  
Jie Hou ◽  
Hui Wu
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Made In

The Would-Be Migrant: Post-Socialist Primitive Accumulation, Potential Transnational Mobility, and the Displacement of the Present in Northeast China

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Biao
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Accumulation Potential ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis article argues that ‘would-be migrants’ – people who prepare for migrating overseas to the extent that their present lives are significantly changed – should become a central figure in migration studies. There are many more would-be migrants than actual migrants, and they also have deeper impacts on migration processes and local societies. Instead of treating the would-be migrant as a derivative of the category of ‘migrant’, this article establishes it as the primary figure, and argues that migration is a contingent outcome of being a ‘would-be’. In order to do so this article delves into the living conditions of would-be migrants in northeast China, with a focus on two aspects that concern them the most: the exorbitant intermediary fees and the high risks involved. The would-be migrants' experiences suggest that the prevalent pattern of unskilled outmigration since the 1990s should be understood as a result of developments inside of China, particularly a condition that I call the ‘displacement of the present’. The figure of would-be migrant is not only methodologically revealing for migration studies, but also urges us to rethink how we may engage with rapid social changes.

scholarly journals Book Review: Hollywood Made in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
Grace Yuehan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

Book Review: Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-145
Author(s):  
Hsiao-Ting Lin
Keyword(s):  
Modern China
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