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Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices.
Trade Review"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general." -- Fang Xu * Journal of International and Global Studies *
"
Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to received wisdom and even to received counterwisdom." -- Ellen R. Judd * American Ethnologist *
“Given its multidisciplinary background, [
Ghost Protocol] will not only appeal to scholars of Chinese studies, but researchers who wish to be have an informed take on the variety of substantive issues covered as well.” -- Meisen Wong * Asian Journal of Social Science *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. Specters of Marx, Shades of Mao, and the Ghosts of Global Capital / Carlos Rojas 1
Part I. Urbanization
1. Traces of the Future: Beijing's Politics of Emergence / Yomi Braester 15
2. The Chinese Eco-City and Suburbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser 36
3. Hegel's Portfolio: Real Estate and Consciousness in Contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges 62
Part II. Structural Reconfigurations
4. Dams, Displacement, and the Moral Economy in Southwest China / Bryan Tilt 87
5. Slaughter Renunciation in Tibetan Pastoral Areas: Buddhism, Neoliberalism, and the Ironies of Alternative Development / Kabzung and Emily T. Yeh / 109
6. "You've Got to Rely on Yourself . . . and the State!": A Structural Chasm in the Chinese Political Moral Order / Biao Xiang 131
7. Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng 150
Part III. Migration and Shifting Identities
8. Temporal-Spatial Migration: Workers in Transnational Supply-Chain Factories / Lisa Rofel 167
9. Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities / Ralph Litzinger 191
10. "I Am Great Leap Liu!": Circuits of Labor, Information, and Identity in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas 205
References 225
Contributors 243
Index 247
