Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Privatizing China 1
5. Part I. Powers of Property
6. Emerging Class Practices
7. 1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles 23
8. 2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods 41
9. Accumulating Land and Money
10. 3. Socialist Land Masters 57
11. 4. Tax Tensions 71
12. Negotiating Neoliberal Values
13. 5. “Reorganized Moralism” 87
14. 6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures 103
15. Part II. Powers of the Self
16. Taking Care of One’s Health
17. 7. Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China 123
18. 8. Should I Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality 133
19. 9. Wild Consumption 151
20. Managing the Professional Self
21. 10. Post-Mao Professionalism 168
22. 11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese 182
23. Search for the Self in New Publics
24. 12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom 197
25. 13. Privatizing Control 214
26. Afterword 230
27. Notes 237
28. Contributors 271
29. Index 275