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Nightwork in Chengdu

Kenneth Pomeranz: China’s Capitalism, 18 February 2016

China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower 
by Linda Yueh.
Oxford, 349 pp., £29.99, April 2013, 978 0 19 920578 3
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The Rise of the People’s Bank of China: The Politics of Institutional Change 
by Stephen Bell and Hui Feng.
Harvard, 374 pp., £40.95, June 2013, 978 0 674 07249 7
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The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China 
by You-tien Hsing.
Oxford, 272 pp., £27.50, March 2012, 978 0 19 964459 9
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Constructing China’s Capitalism: Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries 
by Daniel Buck.
Macmillan, 267 pp., £55, July 2012, 978 0 230 34095 4
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Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China’s New Rich 
by John Osburg.
Stanford, 248 pp., £15.99, April 2013, 978 0 8047 8354 5
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... function differently during periods of rapid growth and periods of retrenchment. Anxious Wealth, John Osburg’s ethnography of ‘business entertaining’ in Chengdu, complements Buck’s book by showing how the social connections Buck says are so important come about and are maintained, and how they aid or hinder market transactions. His informants ...

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