Economic Development in China's Northwest

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Economic Development in China's Northwest

Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands

By:

Joshua Bird

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies on China in Transition

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Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic development, and asserts that ethnic divisions and identities fade with the gradual achievement of economic and social equality. As a result, economic development policy in minority nationality areas has often constituted a replica of the model which has already proven successful in China’s Han-Chinese dominated east. Research conducted across five locations in China’s Northwest paints a far more complex picture, however. This book considers for the first time how identity informs the nature of economic participation among ethnic minority entrepreneurs in China’s remote Northwest. Through interviews with entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, including Tibetan, Han and Muslim Chinese, this book highlights how ethnic—and other—identities inform the nature of economic participation. Furthermore, it explores the broader implications of this de-facto economic segregation for China’s ongoing social harmony and political stability. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how economic participation, even when successful in achieving its economic outcomes, may actually serve to reinforce and strengthen minority national identity—perhaps even at the expense of national Chinese identity. This book will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Ethnic Studies and Economics.

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Joshua Bird works across the Asia-Pacific region in the fields of research, policy and international development.

Release date NZ

July 21st, 2017

Author

Joshua Bird

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

5 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

184

Series

Routledge Studies on China in Transition

ISBN-13

9781138041479

Product ID

26721044

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