4. A Mirage of Modernity: Pas de Deux of Consumption and Production

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Emaciation of the Rural: “No Way Out” 25
6. 2. Mind and Body, Gender and Class 53
7. Part I. “Intellectuals’ Burdens” and Domestic Labor 57
8. Part II. Searching for the Proper Baomu 80
9. Intermezzo 1. A Survey of Employers 109
10. 3. Suzhi as a New Human Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration 111
11. Intermezzo 2. Urban Folklore on Neoliberalism 139
12. 4. A Mirage of Modernity: Pas de Deux of Consumption and Production 145
13. 5. Self-Development and the Specter of Class 187
14. Intermezzo 3. Diary and Song 217
15. 6. The Economic Law and Liminal Subjects 221
16. Notes 251
17. References 287
18. Index 307