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"Community across borders: Life history of Beijing's "Zhejiang Village"" Author: Xiang Biao Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore
"Community across borders: Life history of Beijing's "Zhejiang Village"" Author: Xiang Biao Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The true history of "Beijing Drifting" that continues to this day. China's cities, floating population, economy and society in transition. A study of the life records of Beijing's "Zhejiang Village" and "Zhejiang Villagers" over the past 30 years.
"Zhejiang Village" has gradually taken shape in the Nanyuan area, 5 kilometers south of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, since the 1980s. Over the past 30 years, its unique features of economic production and social reproduction, and the interactive evolution of its internal space and external environment have become a vivid example of studying the development of China's floating population and urban social and economic development, system, power and policy since the reform and opening up.
The author took advantage of his hometown to conduct a field survey of "Zhejiang Village" for six years in the mid-1990s, delving into the daily life of "Zhejiang Villagers" and presenting many details of the landing, development and changes of "Zhejiang Village" in a nearly plain writing style. The formation, structure, operation and changes of "Zhejiang Village", the life, production and operation, hometown sentiment and people's wishes of "Zhejiang Villagers" as "foreign population" in Beijing, and the interaction with the management departments of the inflow area and the registered place, etc., are all analyzed and recorded very closely.
This book has been revised and reprinted after 20 years. In addition to supplementing and revising the previous edition, the new preface reviews the changes in "Zhejiang Village" and Chinese society since 2000, and analyzes and explains "regularization" and "division-seizure model". At the same time, for the convenience of historical comparison, a distribution diagram of "Zhejiang Village" before its relocation in 2017 was added.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Xiang Biao, born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1972, is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oxford. In addition to "Communities Across Borders", he has written Global Body Shopping (Princeton University Press, winner of the 2008 American Anthropological Association Anthony Leeds Award. Chinese translation, Peking University Press 2010); co-edited Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia (Duke University Press 2013). He has won the 2012 William L. Holland Award and the British Academy Mid-Career Development Award. Recent Chinese articles include "The End of the 'Sent-Down Youth Era' in Chinese Social Sciences".
