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Nellie Chu

Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Reconfiguring Supply Chains: Transregional Infrastructure and Informal Manufacturing in Southern China

Book section · October 5, 2018 In recent years, rising labour costs and unstable market conditions characteristic of China’s garment manufacturing sector in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region have prompted former migrant workers and small-scale entrepreneurs to move their wholesaling an ... Cite

Urban Villages, Grid Management, and the Contradictions of Capital

Book section Critics and pundits in China and abroad described the population-control measures of China’s zero-Covid policy as the ‘return’ of an all-encompassing state control akin to that of the Maoist period. While that claim is dubious, such assumptions tend to obs ... Link to item Cite