The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (Paperback)

Preface: The Cult of Entrepreneurialism

1. The Labor of Entrepreneurial Reinvention

Part I. City in Transition
2. Navigating the Investor State: Elite and Grassroots Entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun
3. From Science Park to Coworking: ZGC’s Contested Spaces of Innovation

Part II. Back to the Countryside
4. The Platformization of Family Production: Reinventing Rural Familism and Governance for the E-Commerce Era
5. Moving Beyond Shanzhai? The Contradictions of Entrepreneurial Reinvention in Rural China

Part III. Transnational Encounters
6. Between Individualization and Retraditionalization: Reinventing Self and Work Through Platform-Based Daigou
Epilogue: Toward a China Paradigm

Notes
Index