Introduction : privatizing China : powers of the self, socialism from afar / Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang
Private homes, distinct lifestyles : performing a new middle class / Li Zhang
Property rights and homeowner activism in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read
Socialist land masters : the territorial politics of accumulation / You-tien Hsing
Tax tensions : struggles over income and revenue / Bei Li and Steven M. Sheffrin
"Reorganized moralism" : the politics of transnational labor codes / Pun Ngai
Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao transnational media ventures / Louisa Schein
Consuming medicine and biotechnology in China / Nancy N. Chen
Should I quit? : tobacco, fraught identity, and the risks of governmentality / Matthew Kohrman
Wild consumptions : relocating responsibilities in the time of SARS / Mei Zhan
Post-Mao professionalism : self-enterprise and patriotism / Lisa M. Hoffman
Self-fashioning Shanghainese : dancing across spheres of value / Aihwa Ong
Living buddhas, netizens, and the price of religious freedom / Dan Smyer Yü
Privatizing control : Internet cafés in China / Zhou Yongming
Afterword : thinking outside the Leninist corporate box / Ralph A. Litzinger.