Three. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Orthography and Names xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Edgy dispositions
7. Introduction 24
8. One. To Be Emplaced: Fuzhounese Migration and the Geography of Desire 31
9. Two. Stepping Out: Contesting the Moral Career from Peasant to Overseas Chinese 59
10. Part II. Exits and entrances
11. Three. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits 102
12. Four. Bad Subjects: Human Smuggling, Legality, and the Problem of Entrance 141
13. Part III. Debts and Diversions
14. Five. For Use in Heaven or Hell: The Circulation of the U.S. Dollar among Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors 166
15. Six. Partings and Returns: Gender, Kinship, and the Mediation of Renqing 217
16. Conclusion: When Fortune Flows 257
17. Notes 269
18. Bibliography 295
19. Index 321