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Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant
destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly
900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international
migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is
China's most globalized city and has attracted a full quarter of
Mainland China's foreign resident population. This book analyzes
the development of Shanghai's expatriate communities, from their
role in the opening up of Shanghai to foreign investment in the
early 1980s through to the explosive growth after China joined the
World Trade Organization in 2000. Based on over 400 interviews and
20 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, it argues that
international migrants play an important qualitative role in urban
life. It explains the lifestyles of Shanghai's skilled migrants;
their positions in economic, social, sexual and cultural fields;
their strategies for integration into Chinese society; their
contributions to a cosmopolitan urban geography; and their changing
symbolic and social significance for Shanghai as a global city. In
so doing, it seeks to deal with the following questions: how have a
generation of migrants made Shanghai into a cosmopolitan hometown,
what role have they played in making Shanghai a global city, and
how do foreign residents now fit into the nationalistic narrative
of the China Dream? Addressing a gap in the market of critical
expatriate studies through its focus on China, this book will be of
interest to academics in the field of international migration,
skilled migration, expatriates, urban studies, urban sociology,
sexuality and gender studies, international education, and China
studies.
This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows
of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development
of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader
world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic
accounts of the people, places, and activities involved in Asia's
culinary globalization.
Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant
destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly
900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international
migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is
China's most globalized city and has attracted a full quarter of
Mainland China's foreign resident population. This book analyzes
the development of Shanghai's expatriate communities, from their
role in the opening up of Shanghai to foreign investment in the
early 1980s through to the explosive growth after China joined the
World Trade Organization in 2000. Based on over 400 interviews and
20 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, it argues that
international migrants play an important qualitative role in urban
life. It explains the lifestyles of Shanghai's skilled migrants;
their positions in economic, social, sexual and cultural fields;
their strategies for integration into Chinese society; their
contributions to a cosmopolitan urban geography; and their changing
symbolic and social significance for Shanghai as a global city. In
so doing, it seeks to deal with the following questions: how have a
generation of migrants made Shanghai into a cosmopolitan hometown,
what role have they played in making Shanghai a global city, and
how do foreign residents now fit into the nationalistic narrative
of the China Dream? Addressing a gap in the market of critical
expatriate studies through its focus on China, this book will be of
interest to academics in the field of international migration,
skilled migration, expatriates, urban studies, urban sociology,
sexuality and gender studies, international education, and China
studies.
From teen dating to public displays of affection, from the "fishing
girls" and "big moneys" that wander discos in search of romance to
the changing shape of sex in the Chinese city, this is a book like
no other. James Farrer immerses himself in the vibrant nightlife of
Shanghai, draws on individual and group interviews with Chinese
youth, as well as recent changes in popular media, and considers
how sexual culture has changed in China since its shift to a more
market-based economy.
More and more men and women in China these days are having sex
before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance,
leisure, and free choice. The Chinese themselves describe these
changes as an "opening up" in response to foreign influences and
increased Westernization. Farrer explores these changes by tracing
the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai. He
then shows how Chinese youth act out the sometimes-contradictory
meanings of sex in the new market society. For Farrer, sexuality is
a lens through which we can see how China imagines and understands
itself in the wake of increased globalization. Through personal
storytelling, neighborhood gossip, and games of seduction, young
men and women in Shanghai balance pragmatism with romance, lust
with love, and seriousness with play, collectively constructing and
individually coping with a new culture based on market principles.
With its provocative glimpse into the sex lives of young Chinese,
then, "Opening Up" offers something even greater: a thoughtful
consideration of China as it continues to develop into an economic
superpower.
With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world,
Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational
culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and
capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international
tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics,
ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among
restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration
policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission
and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved
appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic
lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented
imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by
restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and
ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries. The Global Japanese
Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics uses an
innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six
continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and
reception of the "global Japanese restaurant" in the modern world.
Drawing heavily on untapped primary sources in multiple languages,
this book centers on the stories of Japanese migrants in the first
half of the twentieth century, and then on non-Japanese chefs and
restaurateurs from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, and the
Americas whose mobilities, since the mid-1900s, who have been
reshaping and spreading Japanese cuisine. The narrative covers a
century and a half of transnational mobilities, global imaginaries,
and culinary politics at different scales. It shifts the spotlight
of Japanese culinary globalization from the "West" to refocus the
story on Japan’s East Asian neighbors and highlights the growing
role of non-Japanese actors (chefs, restaurateurs, suppliers,
corporations, service staff) since the 1980s. These essays explore
restaurants as social spaces, creating a readable and compelling
history that makes original contributions to Japan studies, food
studies, and global studies. The transdisciplinary framework will
be a pioneering model for combining fieldwork and archival research
to analyze the complexities of culinary globalization.
Title: Crimes and Punishments, including a new translation of
Beccaria's "Dei Delitti e delle Pene.."Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
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back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft.
This collection provides histories and analyses of society,
culture, education, crime, and family life. Providing a unique
perspective of everyday life in the 18th and 19th centuries,
readers of these works can study earlier developments that formed
our modern society.++++The below data was compiled from various
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edition identification: ++++ British Library Farrer, James; 1880.
x, 251 p.; 8 . 6056.df.12.
The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the
streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component
of the city's image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai
Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David
Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose
in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a revival
since the 1980s. Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and
hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden
world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing, drinking, and
socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished
in Shanghai over the last century. The book begins by examining the
history of the jazz-age dance scenes that arose in the ballrooms
and nightclubs of Shanghai's foreign settlements. During its heyday
in the 1930s, Shanghai was known worldwide for its jazz cabarets
that fused Chinese and Western cultures. The 1990s saw the
proliferation of a drinking, music, and sexual culture collectively
constructed to create new contact zones between the local and
tourist populations. Today's Shanghai night scenes are
simultaneously spaces of inequality and friction, where men and
women from many different walks of life compete for status and
attention, and spaces of sociability, in which intercultural
communities are formed. Shanghai Nightscapes highlights the
continuities in the city's nightlife across a turbulent century, as
well as the importance of the multicultural agents of nightlife in
shaping cosmopolitan urban culture in China's greatest global city.
The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the
streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component
of the city's image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai
Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David
Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose
in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a revival
since the 1980s. Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and
hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden
world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing, drinking, and
socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished
in Shanghai over the last century. The book begins by examining the
history of the jazz-age dance scenes that arose in the ballrooms
and nightclubs of Shanghai's foreign settlements. During its heyday
in the 1930s, Shanghai was known worldwide for its jazz cabarets
that fused Chinese and Western cultures. The 1990s saw the
proliferation of a drinking, music, and sexual culture collectively
constructed to create new contact zones between the local and
tourist populations. Today's Shanghai night scenes are
simultaneously spaces of inequality and friction, where men and
women from many different walks of life compete for status and
attention, and spaces of sociability, in which intercultural
communities are formed. Shanghai Nightscapes highlights the
continuities in the city's nightlife across a turbulent century, as
well as the importance of the multicultural agents of nightlife in
shaping cosmopolitan urban culture in China's greatest global city.
With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world,
Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational
culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and
capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international
tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics,
ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among
restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration
policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission
and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved
appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic
lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented
imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by
restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and
ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries. The Global Japanese
Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics uses an
innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six
continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and
reception of the "global Japanese restaurant" in the modern world.
Drawing heavily on untapped primary sources in multiple languages,
this book centers on the stories of Japanese migrants in the first
half of the twentieth century, and then on non-Japanese chefs and
restaurateurs from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, and the
Americas whose mobilities, since the mid-1900s, who have been
reshaping and spreading Japanese cuisine. The narrative covers a
century and a half of transnational mobilities, global imaginaries,
and culinary politics at different scales. It shifts the spotlight
of Japanese culinary globalization from the "West" to refocus the
story on Japan’s East Asian neighbors and highlights the growing
role of non-Japanese actors (chefs, restaurateurs, suppliers,
corporations, service staff) since the 1980s. These essays explore
restaurants as social spaces, creating a readable and compelling
history that makes original contributions to Japan studies, food
studies, and global studies. The transdisciplinary framework will
be a pioneering model for combining fieldwork and archival research
to analyze the complexities of culinary globalization.
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