The subsumption of class discourse in China

Boundary 2

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-91

  Ngai, Pun ^a   Chan, Chris King Chi ^a  

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EID: 65849217603     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: 15272141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-2008-004     Document Type: Article

References (28)

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3. Mao, Selected Works, 1:18-19
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5. Schram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse Tung, 236-37
6. See Wang Hui, "Depoliticized Politics, from East to West," New Left Review 41 (September-October 2006): 29-45
7. Wang Hui, "Depoliticized Politics," 37
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10. and Sally Sargeson, Reworking China's Proletariat (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999)
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12. Quoted in Li Minqi, "China's Class Structure in the World System Perspective" (paper presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference, New York City, March 16, 2003)
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18. Exceptions are Shen Yuan's article, "Shehui zhuanxing yu gongren jieji de zai xingcheng" [The social transformation and reformation of the Chinese working class], Shehuixue yanjiu [Sociological research] 2 (2006): 13-36
19. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), xx
20. Derrida, Specters of Marx, 7
21. See Central Committee of the CCP and State Council of the People's Republic of China (2004), Guanyu cujing nongmin zengjia shouru zhengcede yijian (Yihao wenjian) [Opinions on policies for facilitating the increase of farmers' income (No. 1 Document)]; the full document is available (in Chinese) at http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/pi-c/ 493311.htm
22. See Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)
23. See Wu Qingjun, "Xifang gongren jieji xingcheng lilun shuping li Zhongguo zhuan-xingqide sikao" [Theoretical review on the formation of the working class in the West: A rethinking of the Chinese society in transition], Shehuixue yanjiu [Sociological research] 2 (2006): 182-203
24. See Yu Jiangrong, Zhongguo gongren jieji zhuangkuang: Anyuan shilu [The plight of China's working class: An analysis of Anyuan] (Hong Kong: Mingjing Publisher, 2006)
25. Xu Yeping and Shi Xiuyin, "Gongren jieji xincheng: tizhi nei yu tizhi wai de zhuanhuan [The formation of the working class: The transference inside and outside of the existing system]," Xue hai [Academic world] 4: 27-39; our translation
26. As Elizabeth Perry rightly puts it, "Labor politics begins with the laborers themselves: their geographical origins, gender, popular culture, education attainments, work experiences, and the like" (in Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor [Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993], 4-5)
27. See Pun Ngai and Chris Smith, "Putting the Transnational Labour Process in Its Place: The Dormitory Labour Regime in Post-Socialist China," Work, Employment and Society 21, no. 1 (2007): 27-46
28. and Chris Smith and Pun Ngai, "The Dormitory Labor Regime in China as a Site for Control and Resistance," International Journal of Human Resource Management 17 (August 8, 2006): 1456-70