Ghost Protocol (eBook, PDF)

Development and Displacement in Global China
Redaktion: Carlos Rojas, Rojas

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Produktbeschreibung

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, but from the effects of discrete practices the contributors call protocols, which stem from an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Analyzing the process of urbanization and the ways marginalized communities and migrant workers are positioned in relation to the transforming social landscape, the contributors show how these protocols constitute the Chinese national imaginary while opening spaces for new emancipatory possibilities. Offering a nuanced theory of contemporary China's hybrid political economy, Ghost Protocol situates China's development at the juncture between the world as experienced and the world as imagined.Contributors. Yomi Braester, Alexander Des Forges, Kabzung, Rachel Leng, Ralph A. Litzinger, Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas, Bryan Tilt, Robin Visser, Biao Xiang, Emily T. Yeh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374022
• Artikelnr.: 54663743

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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