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Index
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Catachrestic Keywords and Postsocialism
How Does Domestic Service Signify? The Master-Servant Allegory
Coda
1: THE EMACIATION OF THE RURAL: “No Way Out”
“Rural Women,” State, Patriarchy: A Small Exodus of Rural Women in the 1970s
The Rise of the City and the Emaciation of the Countryside in Post-Mao Modernity
The Domestication of Youth and the Conundrum of Zuoren (Having a Personhood)
2: MIND AND BODY, GENDER AND CLASS
PART I: “INTELLECTUALS’ BURDENS” AND DOMESTIC LABOR
“Intellectuals’ Burdens” and Intellectuals’ Gender in the 1980s
An Ideal Baomu: Approaching a Fantasy
PART II: SEARCHING FOR THE PROPER BAOMU
Handling Domestic Work: From Moral Appeal to Value Management
Where Are the Baomu Sourced?
From “A Blank Slate” to “One Heart and Mind”: Body and Subjectivity
From “A Blank Slate” to “One Heart and Mind”: How One Class Reforms Another
“One of the Family?” Managing a Commodity with Affect
INTERMEZZO 1: A SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS
3: SUZHI AS A NEW HUMAN VALUE: NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE OF LABOR MIGRATION
The Phantom Child of Development: Suzhi as a New Form of Human Value
Discovering Suzhi Poverty
Suzhi–Value Flow and Value Predications of the Subject
Neoliberal Governmentality: Suzhi as Neohumanism
INTERMEZZO 2: URBAN FOLKLORE ON NEOLIBERALISM
A Rhyme
A Parody: An Obituary for Comrade Reagan
4: A MIRAGE OF MODERNITY: PAS DE DEUX OF CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
From Quanyang to Beijing: A Mirage of Modernity through Consumption
On the Urban Labor Market I: “What Are You Here For?”
On the Urban Labor Market II: Use-Value and Semiotic Value for Consumption
Between the Village and the City: Migrating in Contradictions
Politics of Regional Identity and the Erasure of Rural Migrant Women
5: SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND THE SPECTER OF CLASS
Self-Development: Accumulating Suzhi as Surplus Value
“Even Clinton Is a Worker [Dagongde]”: Doing Away with Class (Jieji)
Eating Bitterness for Self-Development
The Specter of Class and Xiaohong’s Dialectical Return to “We”
Coda
INTERMEZZO 3: DIARY AND SONG
A Baomu’s Diary and Her Employer’s Response
“Twelve Months of Dagong”
6: THE ECONOMIC LAW AND LIMINAL SUBJECTS
To Be Zero or Not to Be: The Problem of “Returning”
The Economic Law, Theology, and Sublation
Liminal Subjects and Subterranean Accumulation
NOTES
Introduction
1: The Emaciation of the Rural
2: Mind and Body
2: Part I: “Intellectuals’ Burdens”
2: Part II: The Proper Baomu
Intermezzo 1
3: Suzhi as a New Human Value
Intermezzo 2
4: A Mirage of Modernity
5: The Specter of Class
6: Economic Law and Liminal Subjects
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