"A comparative anthropological study of Chinese globalization, this book explores the emergence of a global polity and the implications of collaborative endeavors and failures through ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique."

"In OIL AND THE LICIT LIFE OF CAPITALISM IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA Hannah Appel considers how oil extraction creates forms of legality and legitimacy that mask its historical relationship to imperialism and slavery in Equatorial Guinea. As a former Spanish colony whose oil industry has developed in...

Negotiating managerial labor power and value -- The (re-)emergence of entrepreneurialism in postsocialist China / Lisa Rofel -- Italian legacies of capital and labor / Sylvia Yanagisako -- One fashion, two nations : Italian-Chinese collaborations / Simona Segre Reinach -- On generation / Sylvia...