Ghost Protocol

"China offers itself as perhaps the most obvious case for critical neo-Marxian analysis on account of its peculiar socialist-capitalist hybridity. Highlighting this hybridity, the contributors provide us with a vivid, subtle, and reflexive framework to delve into several pressing issues about Chinese society, economy, and culture in the post-Reform era. With sophistication, elegance, and incisive conceptualization, Ghost Protocol never loses sight of the world's influence on China or China's growing influence on the world." - Angela Zito, coeditor of DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations After Independent Film

"Ghost Protocol treats Chinese development as a fluid and contested process and challenges simple and schematic views about contemporary China. Shedding light on confusing issues about China's socialist past and 'capitalist' future, it contributes to debates about transformations of socialism and capitalism. The book provides a compelling lens to examine socialism as societies and communities attempt to protect ordinary people from the destructive, fictive commodification of labor, land, and money." - Ban Wang, author of Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China

"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

“Ghost Protocol is an important and engaging book that provides scholars in Chinese studies, anthropology, and geography interested in exploring the cultural and historical forces moving the Chinese economy and its participants today with the theoretically-sophisticated and meticulously-researched ethnographic work they need.” - Andrea Pia, China Review International

"The discrete chapters are well worth engaging for their rich empirical and theoretical contributions." - Andrew Mertha, The China Journal