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166874
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This article employs a feminist political economy perspective to explore the connection between e-commerce, entrepreneurship and gender in rural China. It discusses gendered engagement with, and discourses of, the new digital economy represented by Taobao villages, and asks: how has the success of rural e-commerce impacted the evolving gender mandate and hierarchy in a competitive market economy in rural China? Has rural women's participation in digital economic activities changed their gendered roles and the patriarchal structure in their family and village? This article argues that women's socioeconomic enablement does not necessarily translate into cultural and political empowerment. The enabling potential of female entrepreneurship is tempered by traditional constraints on women and digital capitalist exploitation of their cheap, flexible and docile labour.
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163509
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We conduct the first econometric analysis of the determinants of the formation of Taobao villages, the rural e-commerce clusters recently appeared in China. We examine the roles of various factors such as location, education, transportation infrastructure, the structure of local economy, urban-rural income difference, local government policies and spillover from nearby Taobao villages in the formation of Taobao villages. We find that education plays an important and positive role in the formation of Taobao villages, while credit support for other businesses makes the formation of new Taobao villages less likely.
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