Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, most recently Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.Ralph A. Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Specters of Marx, Shades of Mao, and the Ghosts of Global Capital / Carlos Rojas  1Part I. Urbanization1. Traces of the Future: Beijing's Politics of Emergence / Yomi Braester  152. The Chinese Eco-City and Suburbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser  363. Hegel's Portfolio: Real Estate and Consciousness in Contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges  62Part II. Structural Reconfigurations4. Dams, Displacement, and the Moral Economy in Southwest China / Bryan Tilt  875. Slaughter Renunciation in Tibetan Pastoral Areas: Buddhism, Neoliberalism, and the Ironies of Alternative Development / Kabzung and Emily T. Yeh / 1096. "You've Got to Rely on Yourself . . . and the State!": A Structural Chasm in the Chinese Political Moral Order / Biao Xiang  1317. Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng  150Part III. Migration and Shifting Identities8. Temporal-Spatial Migration: Workers in Transnational Supply-Chain Factories / Lisa Rofel  1679. Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities / Ralph Litzinger  19110. "I Am Great Leap Liu!": Circuits of Labor, Information, and Identity in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas  205References  225Contributors  243Index  247

"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general." - Fang Xu (Journal of International and Global Studies) "Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to received wisdom and even to received counterwisdom." - Ellen R. Judd (American Ethnologist) “Given its multidisciplinary background, [Ghost Protocol] will not only appeal to scholars of Chinese studies, but researchers who wish to be have an informed take on the variety of substantive issues covered as well.” - Meisen Wong (Asian Journal of Social Science)