New and Old Diversities in Contemporary China: Editors’ Introduction
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MCXspmcxModern China0097-70041552-6836SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA10.1177/009770041142440310.1177_0097700411424403New and Old Diversities in Contemporary ChinaEditors’ IntroductionPiekeFrank N.BarabantsevaElenaPiekeFrank N.1BarabantsevaElena21Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands2University of Manchester, Manchester, UKFrank N. Pieke, Chair of Modern China Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands Email: f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl12012381Special Issue: New and Old Diversities in Contemporary China39© 2012 SAGE Publications2012SAGE PublicationsIn the past thirty years, increased flows of capital, trade, and ideas, usually referred to as “globalization,” coupled with neoliberal restructuring of national states and economies have transformed societies across the world. With them, new patterns of spatial and social mobility have created forms of diversity that combine or clash the world over with established ideas and interests vested in, for example, nations, ethnic groups, or local communities. Though these new forms of diversity arguably started in developed countries in Europe, North America, and Oceania in the 1970s and 1980s, developed and developing countries in other continents have followed suit. The oil states in the Middle East, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the richer countries of Southeast Asia, for instance, already have been important countries of immigration for decades. Internal migration and cross-border migration continue to be major factors in generating new patterns of