Cosmologies of credit: transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China/

Chu, Julie Y.,

Cosmologies of credit: transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China/ Julie Y. Chu. - Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. - xi, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

To be emplaced : Fuzhounese migration and the geography of desire -- Stepping out : contesting the moral career from peasant to overseas Chinese -- Snakeheads and paper trails : the making of exits -- Bad subjects : human smuggling, legality, and the problem of entrance -- For use in heaven or hell : the circulation of the U.S. dollar among gods, ghosts, and ancestors -- Partings and returns : gender, kinship, and the mediation of renqing.

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Fujian Sheng (China)--Emigration and immigration.
Fujian Sheng (China)--Rural conditions.

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