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Book SynopsisPrivatizing China gives readers a grounded, fine-grained intimacy with the variety and complexity of everyday conduct in China's turbulent transformation.
Trade Review"Privatizing China is an outstanding contribution to the literature on the extraordinary changes taking place in China today. Its authors analyze fresh evidence through new and compelling frameworks that capture the often contradictory but always fascinating 'assemblages' that constitute Chinese social, economic, cultural, and political life. All of the essays adopt a mode of presentation and argumentation that moves back and forth between theoretical commentary and ethnographic description; all are clearly written, highly accessible, moving, and evocative in their storytelling." -- Susan Greenhalgh, University of California, Irvine
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Privatizing China: Powers of the Self, Socialism from Afar
by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang
PART I. POWERS OF PROPERTY
Emerging Class Practices
1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles: Performing a New Middle Class
by Li Zhang
2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods
by Benjamin L. Read
Accumulating Land and Money
3. Socialist Land Masters: The Territorial Politics of Accumulation
by You-tien Hsing
4. Tax Tensions: Struggles over Income and Revenue
by Bei Li and Steven M. Sheffrin
Negotiating Neoliberal Values
5. "Reorganized Moralism": The Politics of Transnational Labor Codes
by Pun Ngai
6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures
by Louisa Schein
PART II.POWERS OF THE SELF
Taking Care of One's Health
7. Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China
by Nancy N. Chen
8. Should I Quit?: Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality
by Matthew Kohrman
9.Wild Consumption: Relocating Responsibilities in the Time of SARS
by Mei Zhan
Managing the Professional Self
10. Post-Mao Professionalism: Self-enterprise and Patriotism
by Lisa M. Hoffman
11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese: Dancing across Spheres of Value
by Aihwa Ong
Search for the Self in New Publics
12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom
by Dan Smyer Yu
13. Privatizing Control: Internet Cafes in China
by Zhou Yongming
Afterword: Thinking Outside the Leninist Corporate Box
by Ralph A. Litzinger
Notes
Contributors
Index
