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Taylor & Francis New Cultural Revolution Economic Life and Urban Change in China 2013 Edition by Scott Lash, Michael Keith, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker
Dominant theorists of globalization take on the assumptions of a 'Washington Consensus' which presumes the centrality of neo-liberal American individualism. For them America's globalization is at stake. Scott Lash and his colleagues argue that there is a new global driving force: a new logic that is Global China. Here Washington neo-liberal individualism is displaced by the collective relationality of a 'Beijing Consensus'. This relationality harks back to Taoism and Confucianism yet is a motor of Chinese global hypermodernity. This book analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the boundless opportunity and adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture, Shenzhen investment bank young traders, Shanghai property developers and art markets. It examines the risk-sharing of intergenerational family mortgages, wage-pooling microfinance and regimes of collective saving. It scrutinizes the ever-present shadow of the risk-averse (yet uncertainty-creating) state. `Global China` is a must read for social scientists, policy makers and investors. Table of contents :- Introduction. Part 1: Theorising China Constructing Capitalism Part 2: The Trading Room Part 3: Young Traders Part 4: Financial Products Part 5: Consumers: House Slaves, Stock Slaves Part 6: From Urbanism to City Building ('Bottom Up') Part 7: Urbanism's Risky Future in China ('Top Down') Part 8: China Banks