Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China - Fostering Talent

Informationen zum Autor Lisa M. Hoffman is Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Klappentext An ethnographic study of urban professionals in post-Mao China as they balance social responsibility and individual achievement Zusammenfassung An ethnographic study of urban professionals in post-Mao China as they balance social responsibility and individual achievement Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Talent in the Global City: Preparing Dalian for the Twenty-first Century 2. Refiguring Dalian 3. Cultivating Talent 4. Patriotic Professionalism 5. Turning Culture into Profit 6. Gendering Security and the State in Urban China 7. Going Forward: China, Neoliberalism, and Economic Crises Notes Glossary References Index

Product details

• Authors: Lisa M Hoffman, Lisa M. Hoffman
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2010
• EAN: 9781439900352
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0035-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli; Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries