The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace, Mathews, Lin, Yang

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Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods—often knockoffs or copies of high-end branded items—to send back to their home countries. In <i>The World in Guangzhou</i>, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became a center of “low-end globalization” and shows what we can learn from that experience about similar transformations elsewhere in the world.<br />  <br /> Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups—Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans—that don't share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their status as temporary residents and begin to put down roots and establish families?<br />  <br /> Full of unforgettable characters, <i>The World in Guangzhou</i> presents a compelling account of globalization at ground level and offers a look into the future of urban life as transnational connections continue to remake cities around the world. </div> </div> </div> <a class="collapse-truncated-toggle" href="#" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#example-collapse-truncated-1" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="example-collapse-truncated-1"> <span class="trigger-open"> <noindex>Read More<span class="sr-only">about The World in Guangzhou</span></noindex> </span> <span class="trigger-collapse"> <noindex>Read Less<span class="sr-only">about The World in Guangzhou</span></noindex> </span> </a> </div> </div> <div class="purchase-item-detail-details"> <p class="sans-serif-light">Read <a href="/dam/ucp/books/pdf/course_intro/978-0-226-50610-4_course_intro.pdf">chapter one</a>.</p> <hr> <p>  256 pages | 21 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2017 </p> <p class="subject-list"> <a href="/ucp/books/subject/su1.html" class="subject-tag">African Studies</a> </p> <p class="subject-list"> Anthropology: <a href="/ucp/books/subject/su2/su2_1.html" class="subject-tag">Cultural and Social Anthropology</a> </p> <p class="subject-list"> Asian Studies: <a href="/ucp/books/subject/su7/su7_1.html" class="subject-tag">East Asia</a> </p> <p class="subject-list"> Sociology: <a href="/ucp/books/subject/su56/su56_10.html" class="subject-tag">Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <ul class="nav anchored-nav" id="anchor-anchored-nav"> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-reviews" >Reviews</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-table-of-contents" >Table of contents</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-excerpt" aria-disabled="true">Excerpt</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-gallery" aria-disabled="true">Gallery</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-awards" >Awards</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-author-events" aria-disabled="true">Author Events</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#anchor-related-titles" >Related Titles</a> </li> </ul> <div class="anchored-nav-content"> <div class="anchored-nav-section"> <div class="anchored-nav-accordion-toggle-container"> <a class="anchored-nav-accordion-toggle" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" href="#anchor-reviews" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="anchor-reviews"> Reviews </a> </div> <div class="collapse" id="anchor-reviews"> <section class="anchored-nav-content-section"> <h2 class="section-heading">Reviews</h2> <div class="slider"> <div> <blockquote class="blockquote-review"> <div>"[A] pioneering and landmark study. . . . Based on extensive field-work in China and Africa, the book is characterized by a perfect combination of classical ethnographic structure and relaxed jargon-free presentation. It contributes a model of urban ethnography to professional anthropologists and lays the groundwork for laypersons concerned about the prospect of globalization in the post-Coronavirus age."</div> </blockquote> <p class="blockquote-review-attribution">Journal of Chinese Overseas</p> </div> <div> <blockquote class="blockquote-review"> <div>“Compelling stories of corruption and cutthroat competition at the heart of low end globalization in Guangzhou make this the perfect sequel to Mathews’ <i>Ghetto at the Center of the World</i>. <i>The World in Guangzhou</i> is filled with riveting and disturbing tales of racial others, migrants’ dreams of getting rich, and relationships between foreigners—mostly African traders and entrepreneurs—and local Chinese.”</div> </blockquote> <p class="blockquote-review-attribution">Nicole Constable, University of Pittsburgh</p> </div> <div> <blockquote class="blockquote-review"> <div>“I continue to be impressed by Mathews’s combination of a long, skillful buildup of local knowledge with a great sense of how to communicate with a wide readership. To understand Guangzhou and the human face of low-end globalization is to understand a lot about today’s world.”</div> </blockquote> <p class="blockquote-review-attribution">Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios</p> </div> <div> <blockquote class="blockquote-review"> <div>"...a fascinating portrait of the daily functioning of low-end globalization during the early decades of this century."</div> </blockquote> <p class="blockquote-review-attribution">newbooks.asia</p> </div> <div> <blockquote class="blockquote-review"> <div>"Gordon Mathews’ study of Guangzhou, the most important urban center in the probably fastest-growing manufacturing area of the world, addresses the arrival of foreigners to traditionally ethnically homogenous China...Mathews’s peculation about a Chinese Obama who may become the product of this new migration regime illustrates the tensions that play out in today’s world as racial discrimination but also as profit for middlemen bridging the different cultures."</div> </blockquote> <p class="blockquote-review-attribution">New Global Studies</p> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> <div class="anchored-nav-section"> <section class="anchored-nav-content-section-2-col"> <div class="anchored-nav-content-section-row"> <div class="anchored-nav-section-back-to-top"> <a href="#anchor-anchored-nav" class="emphasized-link-with-icon">Back to top<img class="link-icon" src="/.resources/ucp/img/icons/press-back-to-top.svg" alt="Back to top" /> </a> </div> <div class="anchored-nav-accordion-toggle-container"> <a class="anchored-nav-accordion-toggle" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" href="#anchor-table-of-contents" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="anchor-table-of-contents"> Table of Contents </a> </div> <div class="collapse" id="anchor-table-of-contents"> <section class="anchored-nav-content-section-col"> <h2 class="section-heading">Table of Contents</h2> <div id="hasChapterSale"></div> <div class="collapse-truncated-wrapper truncated-faded"> <div class="collapse-truncated" id="example-collapse-truncated-toc" data-max-line-count="20"> <div class="collapse-truncated-inner"> <div class="table-of-contents"> <div><p>Acknowledgments<br /><br /> 1 Introduction<br /> What This Book Is About<br /> Impressions of Guangzhou<br /> A Brief History of Foreigners in Guangzhou<br /> Foreign Places in Guangzhou<br /> How This Book’s Research Was Done<br /><br /> 2 Foreigners in Guangzhou<br /> “The Chinese Dream”: Stories of Eight Foreigners<br /> Rich Foreigner, Poor Foreigner<br /> Race and Money<br /> Foreign Communities: Japanese and Nigerians<br /> The Power of Rumor<br /> Foreigners’ Attitudes toward China and Chinese<br /><br /> 3 African-Chinese Relations<br /> African Traders in Guangzhou: An Overview<br /> Business Deception and Cheating<br /> Quarrels between Africans and Chinese<br /> Chinese Views of Africans<br /> African Views of Chinese</p><p>4 Low-End Globalization<br /> Low-End Globalization/High-End Globalization<br /> How Low-End Globalization Works: Sourcing, Money, Copies, and Customs<br /> Accounts of Low-End Globalization<br /> Low-End Globalization’s Circuits<br /><br /> 5 Legal-Illegal in Guangzhou<br /> Two Paths, Legal and Illegal<br /> Visa and Passport Worries, Jail and Deportation<br /> Police<br /> Accounts of Overstayers and Friends<br /><br /> 6 Logistics Agents, Middlemen, and Cultural Brokers<br /> Logistics Agents<br /> Middleman<br /> Cultural Brokers<br /> Accounts of Logistics Agents, Middlemen, and Cultural Brokers<br /><br /> 7 Religion in a Foreign World<br /> “I Believe in God but Chinese Believe in Gold”<br /> Islam in Comparison to Christianity<br /> Christian Churches<br /> Accounts of Religious Seekers<br /> Religion: Implications<br /><br /> 8 Romance, Love, Marriage, and Families: A Chinese Barack Obama?<br /> “African Chinese”<br /> The Travails of Chinese-African Romantic Relationships<br /> Children<br /> Accounts of 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