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OverviewHow China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed-for better and worse-by China's rapid rise to economic and technological dominance. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed ""high-end"" versus ""low-end,"" and the massive expansion of technical and legal instruments used to measure and control workers and capital. She shows how China's rise has been uniquely shaped by its time-compressed development, the complex relationship between the nation's authoritarian state and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech companies, and an ideology that fuses nationalism with high modernism, technological fetishism, and meritocracy. Some have compared China's extraordinary transformation to America's Gilded Age. This provocative book reveals how it is more like a gilded cage, one in which the Chinese state and tech capital are producing rising inequality and new forms of social exclusion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ya-Wen LeiPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691212838ISBN 10: 069121283 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 21 November 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""Winner of the Bronze Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards"" ""Honorable Mention for the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association"" ""Winner of the Asia/Transnational Book Award, American Sociological Association"" ""Winner of the Best Book Award, Communication, Information Technology, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association"" ""[A] good guidebook for China’s holistic development, not just within the last two decades but also in the decades to come""---George Hong Jiang, London School of Economics" """Winner of the Bronze Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards""" """Winner of the Bronze Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards"" ""[A] good guidebook for China’s holistic development, not just within the last two decades but also in the decades to come""---George Hong Jiang, London School of Economics" Author InformationYa-Wen Lei is professor of sociology at Harvard University, where she is affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is the author of The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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