Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China

Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations

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This book examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering.

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ISBN/EAN 9789087285098
Auteur Ka-Ming Wu
Uitgever Universiteit Leiden hodn Leiden Universi
Taal Engels
Uitvoering Gebonden in harde band
Pagina's 170
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Ka-ming Wu is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a cultural anthropologist of contemporary China, and her work is interdisciplinary in approach at the intersection of Cultural Studies, Anthropology and China Studies. Ka-ming’s first monograph is Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism (UIP 2015). Her second book Feiping Shenghuo: Lajichang De Jingji, Shequn Yu Kongjian (CUHK 2016) (Living with Waste: Economies, Communities and Spaces of Waste Collectors in China) discusses the socio-cultural impacts of waste. Ka-ming’s research and scholarship have developed in concomitance with the field of environmental humanities, with waste studies and critical urban studies as the major pillars.

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