This collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese fashion ventures offers a new methodology for understanding transnational capitalism in a global era.

Foreword / Robert J. Foster  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
I. The Negotiation of Value  35
1. Negotiating Managerial Labor Power and Value / Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako  43
II. Historical Legacies and Revisionist Histories  109
2. The (Re-)Emergence of Entrepreneurialism in Postsocialist China / Lisa Rofel  119
3. Italian Legacies of Capital and Labor / Sylvia Yanagisako  161
4. One Fashion, Two Nations: Italian-Chinese Collaborations / Simona Segre Reinach  190
III. Kinship and Transnational Capitalism  217
5. On Generation / Sylvia Yanagisako  227
6. The Reappearance and Elusiveness of Chinese Family Firms / Lisa Rofel  264
Conclusion  303
Appendix: Four Types of Collaboration between Chinese and Italian Firms  313
Notes  319
References  345
Index  363
 

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

Sylvia J. Yanagisako is Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and author of Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy.