Cosmologies of credit
Subtitle: transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China
By: Julie Y. Chu
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780822347927; 9780822348061
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To be emplaced : Fuzhounese migration and the geography of desire; title: Stepping out : contesting the moral career from peasant to overseas Chinese; title: Snakeheads and paper trails : the making of exits; title: Bad subjects : human smuggling, legality, and the problem of entrance; title: For use in heaven or hell : the circulation of the U.S. dollar among gods, ghosts, and ancestors; title: Partings and returns : gender, kinship, and the mediation of renqing.