Sara Friedman joins me to discuss her new book, Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty. The book explores with incredible detail and nuance the exceptional world of borders, immigration, and sovereignty while keeping its focus on the people—Chinese and Taiwanese spouses, but also the bureaucrats that watch them—whose lives make up this story.
Month: October 2015
Globalizing Chinese Law Firms with Liu Sida
I discuss “The Ecology of Organizational Growth: Chinese Law Firms in the Age of Globalization” with Liu Sida. The paper, co-authored with Wu Hongqi, is forthcoming at the American Journal of Sociology.
