Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420203
Z. Guohua
From the mid-1990s on, bar streets have become the most conspicuous sights of nightlife in China's major cities. Understanding and exploring the structural mechanisms of these bar streets is of significance for understanding present-day China. Based on approximately twelve years of tracking studies, this article shows the spontaneous build-up of Guangzhou's bar streets/clusters starting in the mid-1990s and the government-guided process of homogenization (tongyi hua) since the beginning of this century. The author tries to show the dynamics and mechanisms of present-day China, that is, the constant shaping of social living space by means of complex negotiations among the dynamics of globalization, government mechanisms, relatively spontaneous commercial forces, and the requirements of urban dwellers.
{"title":"The Transformation of Nightlife Districts in Guangzhou, 1995-2009","authors":"Z. Guohua","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625420203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625420203","url":null,"abstract":"From the mid-1990s on, bar streets have become the most conspicuous sights of nightlife in China's major cities. Understanding and exploring the structural mechanisms of these bar streets is of significance for understanding present-day China. Based on approximately twelve years of tracking studies, this article shows the spontaneous build-up of Guangzhou's bar streets/clusters starting in the mid-1990s and the government-guided process of homogenization (tongyi hua) since the beginning of this century. The author tries to show the dynamics and mechanisms of present-day China, that is, the constant shaping of social living space by means of complex negotiations among the dynamics of globalization, government mechanisms, relatively spontaneous commercial forces, and the requirements of urban dwellers.","PeriodicalId":84447,"journal":{"name":"Chinese sociology and anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"56 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89567458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420201
J. Farrer
During the thirty years of opening and reform the drinking bar (jiuba) has become part of the texture of urban Chinese life. The bar has been localized as a conventional setting for social activities including dating, business deals, game playing, and even family outings. The bar is also the site of a class stratification of leisure culture with local, national, and transnational dimensions. Shanghai bar cultures have developed into a patchwork of ethnically mixed and ethnically enclaved sites that allow for a type of flexible cosmopolitanism for those willing and able to negotiate these diverse spaces.
{"title":"Shanghai Bars","authors":"J. Farrer","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625420201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625420201","url":null,"abstract":"During the thirty years of opening and reform the drinking bar (jiuba) has become part of the texture of urban Chinese life. The bar has been localized as a conventional setting for social activities including dating, business deals, game playing, and even family outings. The bar is also the site of a class stratification of leisure culture with local, national, and transnational dimensions. Shanghai bar cultures have developed into a patchwork of ethnically mixed and ethnically enclaved sites that allow for a type of flexible cosmopolitanism for those willing and able to negotiate these diverse spaces.","PeriodicalId":84447,"journal":{"name":"Chinese sociology and anthropology","volume":"5 1","pages":"22 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84039494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420200
M. Chew
This article is a theoretical map that delineates the fledging field of Chinese night-time economy studies, highlights its significance, and suggests possible future directions for its development. It will briefly explicate the night-time economy's significance for the state, society, and economy in China. It will map out current developments in English-language studies of nightlife and the night-time economy and the present state of the field in China. It will also identify several problematics and analyze why they are especially theoretically relevant to the immediate development of the field.
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Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420202
Anthony Y. H. Fung
Singing karaoke is commonly conceived as a leisure activity in which the performer releases his or her own energy and emotion by singing and performing in front of a peer group, colleagues, or public in a particular space. In the former British colony of Hong Kong, karaoke singing has also become a very popular form of entertainment among the young since the late 1980s. As with karaoke in the West, one finds the internal emotional roller coaster of a karaoke singer in action unleashing joy and sadness. In contrast, just across the border of the advanced capitalist society of Hong Kong—in the special economic zone of China, Shenzhen—the same musical notes in karaoke can indicate a very different set of sensations and undertones for those who live in the post-reform socialist market economy. This difference—a terrain in which empirical work is rarely done—is the focus of this article. Based on empirical data collected from mainland China, this article attempts to explicate karaoke consumption in China and one of its major sociocultural implications.
{"title":"Consuming Karaoke in China","authors":"Anthony Y. H. Fung","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625420202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625420202","url":null,"abstract":"Singing karaoke is commonly conceived as a leisure activity in which the performer releases his or her own energy and emotion by singing and performing in front of a peer group, colleagues, or public in a particular space. In the former British colony of Hong Kong, karaoke singing has also become a very popular form of entertainment among the young since the late 1980s. As with karaoke in the West, one finds the internal emotional roller coaster of a karaoke singer in action unleashing joy and sadness. In contrast, just across the border of the advanced capitalist society of Hong Kong—in the special economic zone of China, Shenzhen—the same musical notes in karaoke can indicate a very different set of sensations and undertones for those who live in the post-reform socialist market economy. This difference—a terrain in which empirical work is rarely done—is the focus of this article. Based on empirical data collected from mainland China, this article attempts to explicate karaoke consumption in China and one of its major sociocultural implications.","PeriodicalId":84447,"journal":{"name":"Chinese sociology and anthropology","volume":"60 1","pages":"39 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90705604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420204
M. Chew
This study identifies and analyzes the socioculturally subversive characteristics of "Cantopop electronic dance music," a pop music genre that has been completely neglected by scholars. The first characteristic is the music's facilitation of local resistance against the cultural authority of global music producers, audiences, and gatekeepers. The second is its empowering of underprivileged local social groups against local cultural elites. Next is its adoption of a colloquial vocabulary and local dialect instead of the national standard language. And last is its playful deconstruction of the conservative social ideologies embodied in mainstream Cantopop.
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Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420103
R. Yan, Pan Yi
This article attempts to analyze the logic of labor reproduction of migrant workers and its significance to political economics from the point of view of relationships between industrial capital and labor (re-)production, using the main model of the labor reproduction of urban Chinese migrant workers as an example—the dormitory labor regime. In particular, we explore the absence of state role and the lack of collective consumption for migrant workers brought about by capital and informal social networks dealing with the problem of labor reproduction on their own, and analyze the social, economic, and cultural consequences brought about by this situation. We believe that the use of migrant labor power and its reproductive process are dialectically complementary. If the two cannot be unified in terms of spatial and social significance, there will be no full proletarianization of migrant workers. In contemporary China, the state of "semiproletarianization" of migrant workers brought about by state absence from the labor reproduction process has already to some extent foretold the emergence of urban and social crises.
{"title":"The Absence of State Role in the Labor Reproduction of Migrant Workers","authors":"R. Yan, Pan Yi","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625420103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625420103","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to analyze the logic of labor reproduction of migrant workers and its significance to political economics from the point of view of relationships between industrial capital and labor (re-)production, using the main model of the labor reproduction of urban Chinese migrant workers as an example—the dormitory labor regime. In particular, we explore the absence of state role and the lack of collective consumption for migrant workers brought about by capital and informal social networks dealing with the problem of labor reproduction on their own, and analyze the social, economic, and cultural consequences brought about by this situation. We believe that the use of migrant labor power and its reproductive process are dialectically complementary. If the two cannot be unified in terms of spatial and social significance, there will be no full proletarianization of migrant workers. In contemporary China, the state of \"semiproletarianization\" of migrant workers brought about by state absence from the labor reproduction process has already to some extent foretold the emergence of urban and social crises.","PeriodicalId":84447,"journal":{"name":"Chinese sociology and anthropology","volume":"46 1","pages":"51 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87715788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420100
Cai He
The four articles in this issue of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology focus on regional comparison of migrant-worker status, labor contract, the logic of labor reproduction, and Guangzhou’s model of diversified endowment. Wan Xiangdong, Liu Linping, and Zhang Yonghong conduct a comparative analysis of the basic status of migrant workers in the Pearl and Yangtze river deltas based on survey data from over 1,000 questionnaires completed by migrant workers in these two regions that covered wages, benefits, the safeguarding of rights and interests, personal safety, and the external environment. They conclude that the status of migrant workers in the Pearl river Delta falls far below that of migrant workers in the Yangtze river Delta, and that apart from differences in human capital for workers in the two regions, institutional differences caused by factors such as enterprise structure may have an even more important role in causing these differences. Zhang Yonghong undertakes an empirical analysis of migrant-worker labor contracts from the standpoint of interactions between state interference and organizational fields, and finds that the move from asymmetric employment contracts to the three new types of employment contracts is occurring in the current migrant-labor market. He states that a standard
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Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420104
Tan Bing
Guangzhou's population has been rapidly aging, while corresponding problems in endowment have been growing increasingly severe. Given this situation, Guangzhou has formed a model of diversified endowment that mainly focuses on endowment at home. The city's endowment policies have also gradually formed a policy framework that is mostly focused on endowment security and endowment services, which involve economic support, living care, and the spiritual needs of the elderly. This article systematically looks at Guangzhou's endowment policy system and on this foundation further analyzes the specific contents of Guangzhou's endowment policy model, endowment policy authorities, basic endowment insurance policies, and family endowment service policies.
{"title":"An Analysis of Guangzhou's Endowment Policies with an Aging Population","authors":"Tan Bing","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625420104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625420104","url":null,"abstract":"Guangzhou's population has been rapidly aging, while corresponding problems in endowment have been growing increasingly severe. Given this situation, Guangzhou has formed a model of diversified endowment that mainly focuses on endowment at home. The city's endowment policies have also gradually formed a policy framework that is mostly focused on endowment security and endowment services, which involve economic support, living care, and the spiritual needs of the elderly. This article systematically looks at Guangzhou's endowment policy system and on this foundation further analyzes the specific contents of Guangzhou's endowment policy model, endowment policy authorities, basic endowment insurance policies, and family endowment service policies.","PeriodicalId":84447,"journal":{"name":"Chinese sociology and anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":"102 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84566165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420102
Zhang Yong-hong
Labor contracts are a central institution in the normal operation of the market economy, and are one of the fields undergoing major changes in China's transitioning economy. Labor contract studies are heavily focused on the major practical problem of protecting the rights and interests of migrant workers. This article relies upon a field survey of enterprises in the Pearl River Delta to make an empirical analysis of migrant-worker labor contracts from the standpoint of interactions between state interference and organizational fields and study the move from asymmetric employment contracts to the three new types of employment contracts (the patriarchal welfare system, quota contracts, and standard contracts) that is occurring in the current migrant-labor market. On this basis, the author holds that a standard and obligatory binding mechanism for labor contracts must be formed to build a new order of stable and harmonious labor-capital relations
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Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625420101
W. Xiang-dong, Liu Linping, Zhang Yong-hong
This article offers a comparative analysis of the basic status of migrant workers in the Pearl and Yangtze river deltas based on survey data from over 1,000 questionnaires completed by migrant workers in these two regions that covered wages, benefits, the safeguarding of rights and interests, personal safety, and the external environment. Our basic conclusion is that the status of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta falls far below that of migrant workers in the Yangtze River Delta, and that the differences are clear. Apart from differences in human capital for workers in the two regions, institutional differences caused by factors such as enterprise structure may have an even more important role in causing these differences. The basic mode that enterprises in the Pearl River Delta use to deal with labor-capital relations is the "market model," while in the Yangtze River Delta they use the "human relationship model" and "legitimacy model." These are the basic institutional arrangements and differences of the two regions.
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