This volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices.

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

Carlos Rojas and Ralph A. Litzinger, editors