Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: A Historical Ethnography of Class and State Formation 1
5. 1. Counterinsurgency, Silences, Forgetting, 1946–69 27
6. Part I. DEVELOPMENT (1969–85)
7. Preface: Colonial Residues and “Development” 51
8. 2. “Boom Town in the Making,” 1978–80 57
9. 3. “Getting By”: The Arts of Deception and the “Typical Chinese” 82
10. 4. Banalities of the Urban: Hegemony or State Predation? 109
11. 5. Class Dismissed! 125
12. 6. Men in Motion: The Dialectics of “Disputatiousness” and “Rice-Eating Money” 165
13. 7. Chinese Society as “A Sheet of Loose Sand”: Elite Arguments and Class Discipline in a Postcolonial Era 185
14. Part II. GLOBALIZATION (1985–97)
15. Preface: Going Global 213
16. 8. Subsumption and Encompassment: Class, State Formation, and the Production of Urban Space, 1980–97 221
17. 9. Covert Global: Exit, Alternative Sovereignties, and Being Stuck 243
18. 10. “Walking on Two Roads” and “Jumping Airplanes” 262
19. Epilogue: 1997–2007 286
20. Appendix: A Profile of Economic “Domination”? 303
21. Notes 309
22. References 323
23. Index 339