Cosmopolitan Capitalism

Local State-Society Relations in China and India

Bibliographic Data

ID3642575
AuthorsKellee S Tsai (0000-0003-4185-1744, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume75
Issue2
Pages335-361
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911815002120
OpenAlexW2340096101
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited60

This article examines different patterns of "cosmopolitan capitalism" in three paired localities in China and India: (1) Zhejiang/Gujarat, (2) Zhongguancun/Bangalore, and (3) Guangdong/Kerala. The paired cases illustrate the attentiveness of the local state to transnational society and present varied expressions of the local developmental impact of remittances and return migration. Analytically, this article departs from conventional usages of both state and society by focusing on the local state in combination with a less territorial conception of society. The rationale for this dual definitional stretch-both downwards (local state) and outwards (transnational society)-has an empirical basis. First, the local government represents the day-to-day point of contact with "the state" for most people. Second, limiting the scope of "society" to populations currently residing within national borders unnecessarily excludes temporary migrants and diasporic communities who continue to identify with a locality. Theoretically, this article extends Albert Hirschman's classic categorical troika of "exit, voice, and loyalty" to the literature on new transnationalism

Capitalism · China · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Local government · Local society · Locality · Loyalty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Public Administration · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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