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SUMMARY:Manchester China Institute book presentation - 'Tales of Hope\, T
 astes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia' by Dr Miriam Dri
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DESCRIPTION:China’s new globalism plays out as much in the lives of ordin
 ary workers who shoulder the task of implementing infrastructure project
 s in the world as in the upper echelons of power. Through ethnographic r
 esearch among Chinese road builders in Ethiopia\, Miriam Driessen finds 
 that the hope of sharing China’s success with developing countries soon 
 turns into bitterness\, as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support an
 d appreciation from Ethiopian laborers and state entities. The bitternes
 s is compounded by their position at the margins of Chinese society\, su
 spended as they are between China and Africa and between a poor rural ba
 ckground and a precarious urban future. Workers’ aspirations and predica
 ments reflect back on a Chinese society in flux as well as China’s shift
 ing place in the world. Tales of Hope\, Tastes of Bitterness sheds light
  on situations of contact in which disparate cultures meet and wrestle w
 ith each other in highly asymmetric relations of power. Revealing the in
 tricate and intimate dimensions of these encounters\, Driessen conceptua
 lizes how structures of domination and subordination are reshaped on the
  ground.\n\nMiriam Driessen is an anthropologist and a writer of literar
 y nonfiction in English and her native Dutch. She is currently a Post-Do
 ctoral Research Associate within the China\, Law and Development Project
 \, hosted by the University of Oxford China Centre. \n\nAll welcome - lu
 nch will be provided.\n\nPlease register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e
 /tales-of-hope-tastes-of-bitterness-chinese-road-builders-in-ethiopia-ti
 ckets-75126289755\n\n
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LOCATION:Committee Room A\, Whitworth Hall\, Manchester
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