{"product_id":"new-masters-new-servants-9780822343042","title":"New Masters New Servants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. It explores what the migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Masters, New Servants\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sweeping critique of China’s reforms. It is politically and ideologically engaged, packed with insightful and brilliant discussions of relations between ‘state and market, countryside and city, mental and manual work, and gender and domesticity’. . . . [Yan’s book is] a good read for those eager to understand developments in China over the last two decades.” - Shiling McQuaide, \u003ci\u003eLabour\/Le Travail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Masters, New Servants\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp and brilliant book on many conceptual and methodological fronts. . . . For anyone who is interested in discovering the strange contours and texture of neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and its impact on individuals from one of the most marginalized social groups, this book is a must-read. For students and researchers in the fields of gender, consumption studies, critical development studies, migration, labor and, above all, subaltern subjectivity, this book is also a source of inspiration and intellectual satisfaction.” - Wanning Sun, \u003ci\u003eThe China Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yan’s new volume is both thought-provoking and entertaining. Clearly, the\u003cbr\u003eface of a globalizing China cannot be understood without a focus on the\u003cbr\u003eplight of migrant workers. This book is a timely contribution that provides\u003cbr\u003ethat lens.” - Ingrid Neilson, \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This provocative and challenging book will be a must-read for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in anthropology, Asian Studies, cultural studies and critical theory, as well as for scholars seeking a though-provoking account of the metamorphosis of labour, class and subjectivity concomitant with postsocialism in China.” - Arianne Gaetano, \u003ci\u003eAsia Pacific Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is this ethnographic work that makes the book an invaluable addition to the study of gender, labour, class, rural\/urban relations and ‘development’ in China. It allows Yan to present a nuanced and insightful discussion of these subjects and to offer a compelling critique of the teleology of ‘development’ usually given uncritical primacy in contemporary Chinese discourse.” - Jason Young, \u003ci\u003eNew Zealand Journal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Masters, New Servants\u003c\/i\u003e is the best book to date on migrant labor, gendered domestic labor, and capitalist transformation in China. It is politically and theoretically engaged, full of brilliant insights into the new logics of capitalism and neoliberalism in China, and packed with wonderfully told ethnographic stories, anecdotes, and vignettes. A must read.”—\u003cb\u003eRalph A. Litzinger\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eOther Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Masters, New Servants\u003c\/i\u003e is unique in its scope and ambition. One has the sense that Yan Hairong has really penetrated through several layers of mystification to see the inner workings of Chinese postsocialism and of neoliberalism at large. And through her sensitive and impassioned ethnographic engagement, she has animated the issues with lovingly rendered treatments of the circumstances and subject formation of domestic workers.”—\u003cb\u003eLouisa Schein\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMinority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Masters, New Servants\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp and brilliant book on many conceptual and methodological fronts. . . . For anyone who is interested in discovering the strange contours and texture of neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and its impact on individuals from one of the most marginalized social groups, this book is a must-read. For students and researchers in the fields of gender, consumption studies, critical development studies, migration, labor and, above all, subaltern subjectivity, this book is also a source of inspiration and intellectual satisfaction.” -- Wanning Sun * The China Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Masters, New Servants\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sweeping critique of China’s reforms. It is politically and ideologically engaged, packed with insightful and brilliant discussions of relations between ‘state and market, countryside and city, mental and manual work, and gender and domesticity’. . . . [Yan’s book is] a good read for those eager to understand developments in China over the last two decades.” -- Shiling McQuaide * Labour\/Le Travail *\u003cbr\u003e“This provocative and challenging book will be a must-read for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in anthropology, Asian Studies, cultural studies and critical theory, as well as for scholars seeking a though-provoking account of the metamorphosis of labour, class and subjectivity concomitant with postsocialism in China.” -- Arianne Gaetano * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e“Yan’s new volume is both thought-provoking and entertaining. Clearly, the face of a globalizing China cannot be understood without a focus on the plight of migrant workers. This book is a timely contribution that provides that lens.” -- Ingrid Neilson * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Emaciation of the Rural: \"No Way Out\" 25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mind and Body, Gender and Class 53\u003cbr\u003e Part I. \"Intellectuals' Burdens\" and Domestic Labor 57\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Searching for the Proper Baomu 80\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 1. A Survey of Employers 109\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eSuzhi\u003c\/i\u003e as a New Human Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration 111\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 2. Urban Folklore on Neoliberalism 139\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Mirage of Modernity: Pas de Deux of Consumption and Production 145\u003cbr\u003e 5. Self-Development and the Specter of Class 187\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 3. Diary and Song 217\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Economic Law and Liminal Subjects 221\u003cbr\u003e Notes 251\u003cbr\u003e References 287\u003cbr\u003e Index 307","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406052893015,"sku":"9780822343042","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822343042.jpg?v=1730494371","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-masters-new-servants-9780822343042","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}