"Published under the auspices of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index.
Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires -- pt. 1. Re-Collecting History. 1. Liberation Stories. 2. The Poetics of Productivity. 3. Socialist Nostalgia -- pt. 2. Unsettling Memories. 4. She. 5. The Politics of Authority. 6. Yearnings -- pt. 3. Space and Subjectivity. 7. Allegories of Postsocialism. 8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline