Contemporary China has recently been seen as in the throes ofneoliberal restructuring'. This
claim is contested on theoretical and methodological grounds. During the period of …

The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 introduced a major historical disjunction in
Chinese society, in its political-economic structure, in its social organization and institutions …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 THE SAGA OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN CHINA "The Saga of Anthropology
in China Is an Intimate examination of the development of the anthropological disciplines in …

Since the mid‐1990s,'neoliberalism'has grown in importance as an explanatory trope for
socio‐cultural anthropologists. This article seeks to unravel the various strands of …

If subalterns cannot speak, they can still work and consume.! Or to put it more accurately,
they have no choice but to produce and consume as if they were driven to do so, as if …

Anthropologists have long been inclined to view China from the perspective of a state‐
society dichotomy. In this model, the inevitable consequence of economic reform is that …

When I was a child growing up in a predominantly Chinese city in Malaysia, it seemed as
though we were always trying to catch up with the West, represented first by Great Britain …

I only went to China once, for one day only. I crossed the border by speedboat from Hong
Kong, where I had booked for a daytrip to Shenzhen and Guangzhou, the so called New …

This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to
Chinese culture today, focusing on the competence and sophistication of ordinary people …

David Harvey (2005), in 'A Brief History of Neoliberalism', includes China as a country
embarking on the course of neoliberalism. But he points out that the historic moments of …