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>> vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Mobile Bodies, Mobile Technologies, and Immobile Mobility 1 1. Market Reforms, Global Linkages, and (Dis)continuity in Post-Socialist China 29 2. “My First Big Urban Purchase”: Mobile Technologies and Modern Subjectivity 63 3. Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy 91 4. Picturing the Self, Imagining the World 119 5. Mobile Communication and Labor Politics 145 Conclusion: The Mobile Assemblage and Social Change in China 177 Appendix: The Fieldwork 189 Notes 195 Bibliography 229 Index 257 About the Author 264 This page intentionally left blank ...

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