The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China Lei Ya-Wen
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China Lei Ya-Wen How China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of…
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The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China Lei Ya-Wen
How China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of lifeSince the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed--for better and worse--by China's rapid rise to economic and technological dominance.Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed "high-end"
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