Ghost Protocol

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.

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