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098334
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As a result of China's marketization in recent years there has been an enormous number of rural-urban migrants. Based on a case study in poor villages on the Loess Plateau of central China, and referring to the overall framework of migration theories, this article examines the social and economic characteristics of migrants and their households, and discusses to what extent rural- urban migration contributes to the social and economic development of the migrant-sending areas, especially in reducing poverty
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098331
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As a new but influential international and local institution, UNESCO's World Heritage List constitutes an important sector of the continued internationalization in China, which has yet to be factored in by scholars researching China's reopening and integration into the global community. The notion of deregulation or "bringing down institutional barriers" in trade, politics, society, and education- disproportionately emphasized in most of the literature-is insufficient to understand important elements of internationalization such as national heritage. The ongoing internationalization of China's key heritage sites originated primarily in international appreciation of their significance- and expeditions to explore them-as well as in the historical rediscovery of their own cultural treasures by Chinese at various periods in the past. Both globalization and internationalization result in a strengthened state on multilevels under certain circumstances. The synergistic process of collaboration, resistance, confrontation, and compromise that produces internationalization, as evidenced by UNESCO's Longmen Grottoes, is not a simple zero-sum situation for the state party, community, ordinary citizens, and international actors involved. In the case of Luoyang, the tensions between universal internationalism, particular nationalism, and diverse localism were reconciled through developments managed by the state and its subordinate governments.
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098336
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This article examines the contested drama of the epic quest of self-identity through a critical rereading of three works by Beijing writers from three different generations, describing Beijing life during three different time periods: Wang Meng's "Kite Streamers" (1979), Xu Xing's "Variations Without a Theme" (1985), and Chun Shu's Beijing Doll (2001). Wang Meng's protagonists occupy a limited space between their individual dreams and the tarnished collective ideals in the late 1970s. The groundbreaking stream of consciousness technique that Wang Meng ushered in illustrates a rupture between the repressive ideology of the past and an unconscious world of personal desires. Xu Xing's protagonist is forever wandering Beijing's streets, positioning himself on the margins of social space. His unfixed identity creates a detached, even schizophrenic, perspective while at the same time it empowers a subjectively critical engagement in the 1980s. Chun Shu (the name of both the writer and the protagonist), an icon of the so-called New New Human Being movement in 21st-century Beijing, who longs for a luxurious living space and celebrates the electronic euphoria, as this article argues, is nothing more than a cybernetic punk of post-modern consumerism and post-socialist nihilism.
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2010.
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This article examines the recent emergence of China's private investigation industry, focusing on investigators of spousal infidelity. It outlines the professed business rationales of private investigators that target women experiencing marital crises, including claims that they provide a necessary social service, protect women's rights, promote anti-corruption measures, and uphold Chinese law. It also details growing criticisms of China's "infidelity sleuths" for violating Chinese law and citizens' rights. Finally, the article examines some of the proposed responses to the problems associated with private investigators and the policing of infidelity. The demand for such services highlights the laissez-faire position that economic reform has increasingly forced China's governmental authorities to assume with regard to regulating the private affairs of Chinese citizens.
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