The Magnitude of Global Ties Enhancing Urban Transformation in China

• In Event: 156 - Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Refereed Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: Table 01. Capital and Global Ties

Abstract

Evidently, over the past three decades, China’s economy has been growing at a phenomenal pace fueled primarily by foreign investment. Based on an economics perspective, it refers to liberalizing the economy, introducing markets to replace the Soviet-style central planning system, importing foreign capital and technology, and relying heavily on exports. However, people-based global ties provide a primary angle as a sociological approach to analyze local transformation implicitly and explicitly in the background of Chinese globalizing. From a relational perspective, the new China Model refers to its extended global ties and vast transnational practice in its huge size of population, featured returned overseas Chinese students made a contribution to his country, absorbed talents from abroad, and ethnic Chinese and oversea Chinese descent played significant roles, etc. it is important to study micro globalization as it is embedded in massive people-based global ties. Understanding intensifying ties among people cross-border and its impact on local society goes a long way toward defining up some important dimensions of globalization.
The author uses his recently published book "Chinese Globalization" to analyze how different types of people-based global ties, such as: "have been working in foreign firm", "have been abroad", "have relatives oversea", and "often surf foreign web sites" may make a difference and constitute certain outcomes at local in specific and impact worldwide in general. The outcome seems concluding that global ties are capable of facilitating local transformation across different spatial, economic, and cultural settings.

Author

• Jiaming Sun, Texas A&M Univ. -Commerce