{"product_id":"the-world-in-guangzhou-9780226506104","title":"The World in Guangzhou","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMere decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. 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 those migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods often knock-offs or copies of high-end branded items to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became such a center of low-end globalization and shows what we can learn from that experience similar transformations elsewhere in the world. 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 statu","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400042848599,"sku":"9780226506104","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226506104.jpg?v=1730469536","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-in-guangzhou-9780226506104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}