Global Connectivity and Local Transformation: A Micro Approach to Studying the Effect of Globalization on Shanghai - Softcover

Sun, Jiaming

 
9780761840084: Global Connectivity and Local Transformation: A Micro Approach to Studying the Effect of Globalization on Shanghai
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761840087 ISBN 13: 9780761840084
Publisher: University Press of America, 2008

Synopsis

Global Connectivity and Local Transformation conceptualizes global connectivity as a powerful but varied mechanism that links local people to the global society. Professor Jiaming Sun explores the massive global connectivity that has been woven in two decades in Shanghai.

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About the Author

Jiaming Sun is teaching in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Texas A & M University―Commerce. He was a professor in the Sociology Department, International Politics Department in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has published a number of papers on globalization, urban residential life, cultural study, and youth problems in China, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom over the last twenty years.

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Publisher
University Press of America
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761840087
ISBN 13 
9780761840084
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
164