Ching L Lee

Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women

Gender and the South China Miracle: 2 Worlds of Factory Women

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt And Sunbelt

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

Livelihood Struggles and Market Reform: (Un)making Chinese Labour after State Socialism

Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism (Asia's Transformations)

Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of ...

Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (Asia's Transformations)

After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the ...

High Lights: The Wisdom of the Intenders

High Lights: The Wisdom of the Intenders is our Guide to the Highest Good. It contains over 400 pages of the most inspiring quotes and sayings that came out of our Intenders books and our spiritual guidance sessions with Lee Ching. High Lights is the perfect Bibliomancy tool. Anytime you want a mess...

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress. Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution is the...

Daedalus 143:2 (Spring 2014) - Growing Pains in a Rising China

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Spring 2014 issue is ...

From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China (Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series)

In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often cal...

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law fin...

Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women

Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investmen...