2017/4 China perspectives

Grassroots Makers of Chinese Digital Economy

This special feature brings together three original articles on Internet finance, grassroots programmers, and an e-psychotherapy platform, respectively, to engage in the ongoing debate on China’s e-commerce and digital economy. The three authors contribute to a rethinking of the Chinese digital capitalism from the perspective of sociology (Nicholas Loubere), anthropology (Ping Sun), and social psychology (Hsuan-Ying Huang). They pinpoint the role of commercial activities as vehicles to highlight human agency and diversity in China’s transformations. The three articles— “China’s Internet Finance and Tyrannies of Inclusion” by Loubere, “Programming Practices of Chinese Code Farmers” by Sun, and “Therapy Made Easy” by Huang—not only provide empirical studies of particular grassroots players or makers in China’s e-commerce and digital economy, but also critically discuss their role and agency in negotiating the complicated network of power and knowledge to create a politics of difference in people’s daily lives.
The special feature contributes to the debates on Chinese digital economy from a micro and meso-level analysis that is rooted in the humanities and social sciences. It examines the grassroots participants and makers of China’s e-commerce boom, and at the same time moves beyond the discussion on e-commerce to critique the paradoxes of Chinese digital capitalism, as experienced by poor and disadvantaged individuals engulfed by entrepreneurial digital loan sharks and systems of social surveillance (Loubere), the second-generation-migrant grassroots programmers or code farmers in small software companies in Shenzhen (Sun), and an entrepreneurial psychotherapist whose online platform has taken on the mission of constructing a psychotherapy infrastructure for an under-developed profession (Huang). Together the three articles aim to redefine the “who” of digital economy as an unlikely collection of unimagined individuals and underrepresented groups; the “what” of digital economy as measured by its social and cultural impact rather than its volume of business and transaction; and the “how” of digital economy in terms of the implication of and impact on grassroots players in their strategies for survival.

Special Feature

Haiqing Yu

Editorial - Beyond E-Commerce [Texto completo]

The Social Case of China’s Digital Economy

Nicholas Loubere

China’s Internet Finance Boom and Tyrannies of Inclusion [Texto completo]

Ping Sun

Programming Practices of Chinese Code Farmers [Texto completo disponible en diciembre 2018]

Articulations, Technology, and Alternatives

Hsuan-Ying

Therapy Made Easy [Texto completo disponible en diciembre 2018]

E-Commerce and Infrastructure in China’s Psycho-Boom

Articles

Giulia Cabras

Between Resistance and Adaptation [Texto completo disponible en diciembre 2018]

The Place of the Uyghur Language in the Sinicised Zone of Ürümchi

Hélène Le Bail y Aël Théry

The Migration of Experts and Savoir-faire [Texto completo disponible en diciembre 2018]

The Case of French Cuisine Professionals in Shanghai

Current affairs

Ting-Fai Yu

The Imprisonment of Occupy Student Leaders [Texto completo]

Public Reactions and Debates over Hong Kong’s Judicial Independenc

Book reviews

Nathanel Amar

Yiu-Wai Chu, Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History, [Texto completo]

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2017, 256 pp.

Judith Audin

Luigi Tomba, The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China, [Texto completo]

Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2015, 225 pp.

Sébastien Billioud

Ji Zhe, Religion, modernité et temporalité. Une sociologie du bouddhisme Chan contemporain (Religion, modernity and temporality: A sociology of contemporary Chan Buddhism), [Texto completo]

Paris, CNRS Editions, 2016, 348 pp.

Qian Gong

Ruoyun Bai, Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics, [Texto completo]

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2015, 276 pp.

Gilles Guiheux

David S. G. Goodman, Class in Contemporary China, [Texto completo]

Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2014, 233 pp.

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