New Book Announcement: “Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China” by C Patterson Giersch
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China’s north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to…
