China: Commercial spaces of globalization
Résumé
China is not just the workshop of the world; it is also a huge market. There are not just factories controlled by foreign capital, employing migrants in the city peripherals or old village units, mobilizing Fordist methods to mass-produce large quantities of consumer products for the whole world. There are also numerous zones of product movements and trade, rural and urban markets, wholesale and retail markets, run-of-the-mill and specialized markets, temporary and permanent trade fairs. Some of these zones are meeting points for Chinese producers, State owned companies or, increasingly, private companies, and the rest of the world. The international buyers are not just salaried representatives of big globalized distribution firms but also independent small shopkeepers of developing countries (Africa, Middle-East, South Asia particularly); everybody comes to China to look for inexpensive products that meet the quality or variety requirements of their different clientele.
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