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title	:	Other Modernities : Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism
author	:	Rofel, Lisa.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520210794
print isbn13	:	9780520210790
ebook isbn13	:	9780585273365
language	:	English
subject	Women--China--Hangzhou--Case studies, Women silk industry workers--China--Hangzhou--Case studies, Women and socialism--China--Hangzhou--Case studies, Socialism--China--History--20th century, China--History--1949-
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	HQ1770.H36R64 1999eb
ddc	:	305.4/0951/242
subject	:	Women--China--Hangzhou--Case studies, Women silk industry workers--China--Hangzhou--Case studies, Women and socialism--China--Hangzhou--Case studies, Socialism--China--History--20th century, China--History--1949-

Page i Other Modernities

Page ii Published under the auspices of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Page iii Other Modernities Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism Lisa Rofel

Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 1999 by The Regents of the University of California Grateful acknowledgment is made for use of the quotation from "On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge," from Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde. Copyright 1986 by Audre Lorde. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rofel, Lisa, 1953 Other modernities : gendered yearnings in China after socialism / Lisa Rofel. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-520-21078-6 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-520-21079-4 (alk. paper) 1. WomenChinaHang-chou shihCase studies. 2. Women silk industry workersChinaHang-chou shihCase studies. 3. Women and socialismChinaHang-chou shihCase studies. 4. Socialism ChinaHistory20th century. 5. ChinaHistory1949 I. Title HQ1770.H36R64 1999 305.4'0951'242dc 21 98-38034 CIP Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v To Graciela In thanks for her love and imagination

Page vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires 1 Part One Re-Collecting History 1. Liberation Stories 41 2. The Poetics of Productivity 96 3. Socialist Nostalgia 128 Part Two Unsettling Memories Interlude 153 4. She 159 5. The Politics of Authority 166 6. Yearnings 188 Part Three Space and Subjectivity 7. Allegories of Postsocialism 217 8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline 257 Coda 277 Notes 285 Bibliography 303 Index 319

Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS Photographs Posing at work for the ethnographer 39 Lunch break 151 Three generations of silk workers in one family 215 Maps Hangzhou 40 Zhenfu factory 272

Page xi PREFACE How should a cross-cultural study of modernity proceed? The history of colonialism has made "modernity" a global phenomenon. But what exactly is meant by that statement? Does it imply that modernity arose as a discrete set of practices in the West and then was simply mimicked in the rest of the world? Does it mean that certain places remain that still need to arrive at this selfsame identityor, to the contrary, that the globe has congealed into transnational homogeneity? Finally, should we think of modernity as indigenous practices established within discrete cultures with their own histories?

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