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Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

New Books in Chinese Studies

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The Different Hierarchies of Grassroots Entrepreneurs

There exists a social hierarchy also called Qing of content, Chinese and bishiliya among Jomwens entrepreneurs. At the very top of hierarchies is overseas returnees were well twin and highly technically proficient. Many came with their own patent technologies. In my research, I see them as more elite than the grassroots entrepreneurs who are migrant workers.

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