Rojas / Litzinger Ghost Protocol

Development and Displacement in Global China
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

This 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rojas, Carlos

Litzinger, Ralph A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 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

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, most recently Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.
Ralph A. Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, also published by Duke University Press.