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Christian Henriot
Other affiliations: University of Lyon, Lyon College
Bio: Christian Henriot is an academic researcher from Institut Universitaire de France. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & East Asia. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 47 publications receiving 312 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Henriot include University of Lyon & Lyon College.
Topics: China, East Asia, Social history, Refugee, Productivity
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TL;DR: In this paper, a series of case studies in industry and the funeral business is presented to explore the first transformation of the Chinese economy and social system in the 1950s, which is referred to as the shehuizhuyi gaizao.
Abstract: In 2014, according to Fortune magazine, China was home to 2.4 million millionaires, with a robust growth of 900,000 over the previous year.1 Thirty-five years after Deng Xiaoping launched the train of reforms that radically altered the impotent socialist economic system put in place in the 1950s, China seems to have transformed into a full-bloomed capitalist market economy. Although the actual picture is much more complex that it appears at first glance—the genuine private sector remains small, while the state holds a firm grip through an overwhelming and multi-faceted presence—it is undeniable that the Chinese Communist Party has scrapped the system of planned economy, market mechanisms have become the driving factors of economic growth, and a lot of people have taken to heart Deng’s famous 1985 statement, ‘Let some people get rich first.’ In view of the massive inequality in today’s China—in 2011 the Gini Index for China and the United States was almost the same2—one may wonder not just what remains of the socialist experience in China, but how one can read and assess the ‘first transformation’ of the Chinese economic and social system in the 1950s. This special issue addresses and explores this ‘first transformation’—what the ccp termed the ‘socialist transformation’ (shehuizhuyi gaizao) of the Chinese economy—through a series of case studies in industry and the funeral business. Quite recently, thanks to access to new materials, the study of post1949 China has taken on bright new colours.3 For a long time, research on
01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a three-year survey among Shanghai SOEs from 1989 to 1992, with a follow-up to 1995, and tried to assess the extent of the reforms, their impact, and the capacity of Shanghai SoEs to adapt to a more competitive environment.
Abstract: The present paper is based on a large three-year survey we carried out among Shanghai SOEs from 1989 to 1992, with a follow-up to 1995. We tried to assess the extent of the reforms, their impact, and the capacity of Shanghai SOEs to adapt to a more competitive environment. In this paper, I shall focus on one aspect of SOEs' management, namely the issue of productivity. Low and declining productivity has been one of the major features of SOEs in China and in Shanghai. By the time of our survey, Shanghai SOEs had been under reform for 8 years (1984-1992). Reforms in management, labor, marketing should have brought substantial changes. They had a serious impact indeed, but they failed to materialize into a real rejuvenation of SOEs.
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TL;DR: Differences in occupational control among one type of brothel-based prostitutes in China are examined, demonstrating the importance of prevention activities directed at the brothel managers and clients, as well as the sex workers, to focus on sociocultural aspects of sex work.
Abstract: Sexual transmission of HIV in China is rapidly increasing in part driven by commercial sex work. This article examines variations in occupational control among one type of brothel-based prostitutes in China and the relationship between the terms and content of this work and the risk of HIV/AIDS. Organizational factors are discussed as part of the current political economic and social context of sex work in China. The analysis is based on ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews conducted in south China in 2000 and 2001 involving 158 female prostitutes from 45 brothels in 4 red light districts. Qualitative analysis of interview and observational data used development of thematic codes measuring occupational control. Brothel-based female sex workers in China are a heterogeneous population displaying considerable variability in the organization of life and work relationships with managers and clients ability to negotiate condom use knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV and occupational identity all of which may result in different risks of acquiring HIV. HIV prevention activities in China must focus on sociocultural aspects of sex work. Such interventions depend on detailed knowledge of its organization. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of prevention activities directed at the brothel managers and clients as well as the sex workers. (authors)
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Hershatter as discussed by the authors surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity, and offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields.
Abstract: This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.
141 citations
TL;DR: The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to assemble and write one as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to assemble and write one. This burgeoning area of inquiry draws its inspiration and approaches from many sources outside "the China field," a realm no longer hermetically sealed within exclusive logics of sinology or area studies. Research about Chinese women has been enriched by the growth of women's studies abroad and in China; by debates about gender as a category of analysis and its uneasy relationship to sex and sexuality; by conversations inside established scholarly disciplines about gender's entanglement with politics, migration, nation building, and modernity; by discussions across the disciplines about agency, resistance, subjectivity, and voice; and by several waves of refigured Marxism in the wake of feminist activity, the demise of socialism, and the development of postcolonial scholarship. During the same period, available sources and opportunities for research and fieldwork in China have expanded for both Chinese scholars and foreigners, giving rise to scholarly conversations that sometimes intersect and sometimes trace utterly separate trajectories. To complicate a state-of-the-field project even further, writing about women routinely crosses disciplinary boundaries. For China the disciplines that investigate "women" shift with the period of time under investigation as well as with changing disciplinary norms. History, for instance, used to stop at the edge of the People's
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