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Common, Luxury, and Fake Commodities: Intangible Cultural Heritage Markets in China

Introduction Can traditional cultural practices thrive if they are commercialised? Or should the state protect them from “the market”? This debate has been at the…

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Editorial – Cultural Values in the Making: Governing through Intangible Heritage

Cultural Values in the Making: Governing through Intangible Heritage Integral to the emergence of any modern state, the preservation of the traces of national past…

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Strong Village Leadership vs. Government Investment: Reflections on a Community Reconstruction Case in Southwest China

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Convivial Agriculture: Evolving Food and Farming Activism in South China

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Back to the Land “Peasant-entrepreneurs”: The New Actors of Chinese Peasant Agroecology

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From Peasant to Elite: Reshaping Agriculture in Gansu Province

After several weeks of conducting interviews with smallholders and entrepreneurial farmers in Gansu Province in September and October 2016, I encountered an agrarian entrepreneur producing…

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Editorial – Negotiating Agrarian Futures in China: Capital, Collectives, and Communities

The globalisation of agricultural production and food systems has brought fundamental changes to agrarian economies around the world. While providing cheap and plentiful food for…

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Afterword

It is a great pleasure for us to see that the notion of a “multiplication of labour,” originally elaborated in our book Border as Method…

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The Forming of E-platform-driven Flexible Specialisation: How E-commerce Platforms Have Changed China’s Garment Industry Supply Chains and Labour Relations

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Platform Labour and Contingent Agency in China

Introduction The question of how digital technologies have changed the employment structure in China leads to no easy answer. Some scholars see digital workers as…

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