All articles from: March, 2011

"We Are the State": An Entrepreneurial Mission to Serve the People in Harbin, Northeast China

How can we explain market actors’ desire to use the state as a model for their entrepreneurial efforts? This article examines the varied and uneven ways in which the state is mimicked and appropriated by China’s market actors in the health caresector.A massagefranchiser,whichdoubles as a job-trainingcenter in Harbin, serves as an ethnographic instance. By invoking [...]

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