Introduction: "specters of Marx, shades of Mao, and the ghosts of global capital" / Carlos Rojas -- Traces of the future : Beijing's politics of emergence / Yomi Braester -- The Chinese eco-city and suburbanization planning : case studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser -- Hegel's portfolio : real estate and consciousness in contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges -- Dams, displacement, and the moral economy in southwest China / Bryan Tilt -- Slaughter renunciation in Tibetan pastoral areas : Buddhism, neoliberalism, and the ironies of alternative development / Gaerrang and Emily T. Yeh -- "You've got to rely on yourself ... and the state!" a structural chasm in the Chinese political moral order / Biao Xiang -- Queer reflections and recursion in homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng -- Temporal-spatial migration: workers in transnational supply-chain factories / Lisa Rofel -- Regimes of exclusion and inclusion: migrant labor, education, and contested futurities / Ralph Litzinger -- "I am great leap liu!" circuits of labor, information, and identity in contemporary China -- Carlos Rojas