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SUMMARY:"The Gilded Cage: Technology\, Development\, and State Capitalism 
 in China" with Prof Ya-Wen Lei - Prof Ya-Wen Lei (Harvard University)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231129T130000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231129T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Since the mid-2000s\, the Chinese state has increasingly shift
 ed away from labor-intensive\, export-oriented manufacturing to a process 
 of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Le
 i traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resultin
 g form of techno-state capitalism\, telling the stories of those whose liv
 es have been transformed—for better and worse—by China’s rapid rise 
 to economic and technological dominance.\n\nDrawing on groundbreaking fiel
 dwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers\, business owners\
 , workers\, software engineers\, and local government officials\, Lei desc
 ribes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed “hig
 h-end” versus “low-end\,” and the massive expansion of technical and
  legal instruments used to measure and control workers and capital. She sh
 ows how China’s rise has been uniquely shaped by its time-compressed dev
 elopment\, the complex relationship between the nation’s authoritarian s
 tate and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech companies\, and an ideo
 logy that fuses nationalism with high modernism\, technological fetishism\
 , and meritocracy.\n\nSome have compared China’s extraordinary transform
 ation to America’s Gilded Age. This provocative book reveals how it is m
 ore like a gilded cage\, one in which the Chinese state and tech capital a
 re producing rising inequality and new forms of social exclusion.\nSpeaker
 s:\nProf Ya-Wen Lei (Harvard University)
LOCATION:1 St Giles' (1 St Giles Seminar Room)\, 1 St Giles' OX1 3JS
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8d676813-3840-4016-a820-fd04a3ab538a/
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