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Transcending Boundaries: Zhejiangcun: the Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing (China Studies, 5)
Transcending Boundaries: Zhejiangcun: the Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing (China Studies, 5)
Book • 2004
Going Beyond the Boundaries (often referenced from Xiang Biao's work on Zhejiangcun) presents an ethnographic account of migrant entrepreneurs from Zhejiang who built workshops and businesses in Beijing.
Xiang traces how migrants navigated legal constraints, social networks, and economic opportunity to create livelihoods in the city.
The book situates these practices within broader reforms and shifting state-society relations in China.
Through close observation, Xiang highlights themes of mobility, informal economies, and the formation of new social identities.
The work is regarded as a key contribution to studies of migration and grassroots economic change in reform-era China.
Xiang traces how migrants navigated legal constraints, social networks, and economic opportunity to create livelihoods in the city.
The book situates these practices within broader reforms and shifting state-society relations in China.
Through close observation, Xiang highlights themes of mobility, informal economies, and the formation of new social identities.
The work is regarded as a key contribution to studies of migration and grassroots economic change in reform-era China.
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