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Article: Dreaming Like a Market: The Hidden Script of Financial Inclusion in China's P2P Lending Platforms

TitleDreaming Like a Market: The Hidden Script of Financial Inclusion in China's P2P Lending Platforms
Authors
KeywordsFinancial Inclusion
Financial Technology
Credits and Debts
Morality of Markets
China Dream
Issue Date2021
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2330-4847
Citation
Economic Anthropology, 2021, v. 8 n. 1, p. 102-115 How to Cite?
AbstractIn the past ten years, Chinese people of different social strata have swarmed into the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry as lenders and borrowers. Meanwhile, stories have circulated across the media about desperate investors who lost their life savings on these lending platforms, many of which turned out to be Ponzi schemes. Based on fifteen months of fieldwork, this article presents a failed yet influential social experiment of digital finance in the world's largest developing economy. This article examines the morality of the P2P market by observing how the aspirational public script of financial inclusion is maintained and experienced through a hidden technological script that alienates the notion of “peer.” This article argues that the morality of the market is not only about “seeing” and judging from a distance but also about “feeling” and managing the moral boundaries and intersubjective distances between actors. These altered distances restructure interpersonal responsibilities and sustain the dreams and imagination that shape financial subjects on an unconscious level. The article expands the concept of market relationality beyond direct interactions between actors and uncovers the inherent tensions within the dream of financial inclusion. It examines the fantasy of beneficial technology in shaping market morality and the unintended consequences it produces.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/289961
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.2
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.667
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dc.contributor.authorRAO, Y-
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-22T08:19:56Z-
dc.date.available2020-10-22T08:19:56Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationEconomic Anthropology, 2021, v. 8 n. 1, p. 102-115-
dc.identifier.issn2330-4847-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/289961-
dc.description.abstractIn the past ten years, Chinese people of different social strata have swarmed into the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry as lenders and borrowers. Meanwhile, stories have circulated across the media about desperate investors who lost their life savings on these lending platforms, many of which turned out to be Ponzi schemes. Based on fifteen months of fieldwork, this article presents a failed yet influential social experiment of digital finance in the world's largest developing economy. This article examines the morality of the P2P market by observing how the aspirational public script of financial inclusion is maintained and experienced through a hidden technological script that alienates the notion of “peer.” This article argues that the morality of the market is not only about “seeing” and judging from a distance but also about “feeling” and managing the moral boundaries and intersubjective distances between actors. These altered distances restructure interpersonal responsibilities and sustain the dreams and imagination that shape financial subjects on an unconscious level. The article expands the concept of market relationality beyond direct interactions between actors and uncovers the inherent tensions within the dream of financial inclusion. It examines the fantasy of beneficial technology in shaping market morality and the unintended consequences it produces.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2330-4847-
dc.relation.ispartofEconomic Anthropology-
dc.rightsSubmitted (preprint) Version This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. Accepted (peer-reviewed) Version This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.-
dc.subjectFinancial Inclusion-
dc.subjectFinancial Technology-
dc.subjectCredits and Debts-
dc.subjectMorality of Markets-
dc.subjectChina Dream-
dc.titleDreaming Like a Market: The Hidden Script of Financial Inclusion in China's P2P Lending Platforms-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailRAO, Y: ycrao0204@gmail.com-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1002/sea2.12200-
dc.identifier.hkuros316653-
dc.identifier.volume8-
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.spage102-
dc.identifier.epage115-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000597394200001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-

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