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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Gordon Mathews; Linessa Dan Lin; Yang Yang |
ISBN: | 9780226506074 022650607X 9780226506104 022650610X |
OCLC Number: | 1041405868 |
Description: | 252 pages : illustrations |
Contents: | 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 |
Responsibility: | Gordon Mathews with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang. |
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