Readings

Arrighi, Giovanni. Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, London: Verso, 2007.

Chan, Anita. China's Worker's Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy, Armonk and London: East Gate, 2001.

Friedman, John. China's Urban Transition, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Greenhalgh, Susan and Winckler, Edwin A. Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Holmes, Brian. 'One World, One Dream: China at the Risk of New Subjectivities', Continental Drift, 2008.

Keane, Michael. Various writings on China's media and cultural industries available here.

Liu Kang. Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.

Liu Kang. Globalzation and Cultural Trends in China, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.

Lovink, Geert and Rossiter, Ned. (eds) MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007.

Lovink, Geert and Rossiter, Ned. 'Dawn of the Organised Networks’, Fibreculture Journal 5 (2005).

Lovink, Geert and Rossiter, Ned. ‘Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics: Organized Networks Updated’, in Marco Berlinguer and Hilary Wainwright (eds), Networked Politics: Rethinking Political Organisation in an Age of Movements and Networks, Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007, pp. 61-65.

Luyn, Floris-Jan van. A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China, trans. Jeannette K. Ringold, New York: New Press, 2008.

Neilson, Brett and Rossiter, Ned. ‘From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labour, Life and Unstable Networks’, Fibreculture Journal 5 (2005).

Neilson, Brett and Rossiter, Ned. ‘Towards a Political Anthropology of New Institutional Forms’, ephemera: theory & politics in organization 6.4 (2006): 393-410.

Ong, Aiwha. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty, Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Pun Ngai. Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace, Durham and Hong Kong: Duke University Press/Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

Rofel, Lisa. Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality and Public Culture, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007.

Ross, Andrew. Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade, Lessons from Shanghai, New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.

Rossiter, Ned. Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, Rotterdam: NAi Publications and Institute for Network Cultures, 2006.

Rossiter, Ned ‘Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Impressions’, Leonardo: Journal for the International Arts, Sciences and Technology 39.4 (2006): 367-370. Earlier version available here.

Wang Hui. China's New Order: Society, Politics and Economy in Transition, ed. by Theodore Huters, Cambridge, Mass.: Havard University Press, 2003.

Wang Hui. 'Depoliticized Politics, Multiple Components of Hegemony, and the Eclipse of the Sixties', trans. Christopher Connery, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 7.4 (2006): 683-700.

Zehle, Soenke. 'Technologies du Commun', Vacarme 34 (2006). English version here.

Zhang, Li. Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Zhou Yongming. Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, The Internet, and Political Participation in China, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2006.