The world in Guangzhou : Africans and other foreigners in south China's global marketplace / Gordon Mathews with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang
- Bib ID:
- 7506677
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mathews, Gordon, author
- Description:
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017
- ©2017
- viii, 252 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780226506074 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
- 022650607X (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
- 9780226506104 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
- 022650610X (paperback) (alkaline paper)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780226506241 (electronic book)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- What this book is about
- Impressions of Guangzhou
- A brief history of foreigners in Guangzhou
- Foreign places in Guangzhou
- How this book's research was done
- Foreigners in Guangzhou
- "The Chinese dream": stories of eight foreigners
- Rich foreigner, poor foreigner
- Race and money
- Foreign communities: Japanese and Nigerians
- The power of rumor
- Foreigners' attitudes toward China and Chinese
- African-Chinese relations
- African traders in Guangzhou: an overview
- Business deception and cheating
- Quarrels between Africans and Chinese
- Chinese views of Africans
- African views of Chinese
- Low-end globalization
- Low-end globalization/high-end globalization
- How low-end globalization works: sourcing, money, copies, and customs
- Accounts of low-end globalization
- Low-end globalization's circuits
- Legal-illegal in Guangzhou
- Paths, legal and illegal
- Visa and passport worries, jail and deportation
- Police
- Accounts of overstayers and friends
- Logistics agents, middlemen, and cultural brokers
- Logistics agents
- Middleman
- Cultural brokers
- Accounts of logistics agents, middlemen, and cultural brokers
- Religion in a foreign world
- "I believe in god but Chinese believe in gold"
- Islam in comparison to Christianity
- Christian churches
- Accounts of religious seekers
- Religion: implications
- Romance, love, marriage, and families: a Chinese Barack Obama?
- "African Chinese"
- The travails of Chinese-African romantic relationships
- Children
- Accounts of marriages
- Conclusion: the larger significance of Africans in China.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2017
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