Living on E-Commerce: The Politics and Ethics of E-Trading in a Chinese City

dc.contributor.authorQian, Linliangen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-01T02:50:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractBased on thirteen-month fieldwork in the city of Yiwu, an emergent e-commercial hub in Southeast China, this dissertation looks at the making of a neoliberal e-commerce economy and its political, economic, social, and cultural impacts on e-traders in the locality. Despite some state developmental endeavors, this new economy is largely fostered by grassroots market players and facilitated by large e-platform giants, such as the Alibaba Group. The expansion of this new economy has given individual Chinese e-traders new opportunities to generate wealth and cultural capital, achieve upward social mobility and construct an enterprising subjectivity. Yet, the domination of e-platform giants in this economy has also created a precarious condition for the grassroots e-traders, in which they have to adapt to the changing environment and find creative strategies and tactics to ensure their economic security. Through investigations of their self-reliant discourses and business practices in opposition to state intervention in economy and in individual life, their negotiations over independence and justice under the hegemony of e-platform giants, their struggles for social recognition in urban Chinese society, their moral agency in negotiating and contesting ethics in business encounters, and their employment of self-enterprising and self-disciplining measures in dealing with economic and social uncertainties, this dissertation illustrates how the ongoing formation of the digital regime of accumulation generates an anxious yet flourishing life for the e-traders under neoliberalism as well as speaks to the culturally specific process of subjectivization in China.en_AU
dc.format.extent1 vol.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.otherb58077017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/148755
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceMade available OA 20.12.2023 with permission of Author [ERMS7382712]
dc.publisherCanberra, ACT : The Australian National Universityen_AU
dc.rightsAuthor retains copyrighten_AU
dc.subjectE-Commerceen_AU
dc.subjectChinaen_AU
dc.subjectYiwuen_AU
dc.subjectTaobaoen_AU
dc.subjectAlibabaen_AU
dc.subjectentrepreneurial subjectsen_AU
dc.subjectneoliberalismen_AU
dc.titleLiving on E-Commerce: The Politics and Ethics of E-Trading in a Chinese Cityen_AU
dc.typeThesis (PhD)en_AU
dcterms.accessRightsRestricted accessen_AU
dcterms.valid2018en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationAustralian Centre on China in the World, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailqianlinliang@163.comen_AU
local.contributor.institutionThe Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.supervisorTomba, Luigien_AU
local.contributor.supervisorcontactluigi.tomba@sydney.edu.auen_AU
local.description.notesthe author deposited 1/11/2018.en_AU
local.description.notesERMS2480939 restriction of thesis approval. ERMS6125359 restriction extension approval.en_AU
local.description.refereedYesen_AU
local.identifier.doi10.25911/5d514294cdf38
local.mintdoimint
local.request.emailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.request.nameDigital Thesesen_AU
local.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_AU
local.type.statusAccepted Versionen_AU

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