Table of Contents

1. Translocal China: An Introduction 2. The Original Translocal Society and its Modern Fate: Historical and Post-Reform South China 3. Shanxi as Translocal Imaginary: Reforming the Local 4. Openness, Change and Translocality: New Migrants’ Identification with Hainan 5. How Local are Local Enterprises?: Privatization and Translocality of Small Firms in Zhejiang and Jiangsu 6. Urban Transformation and Professionalization: Translocality and Rationalities of Enterprise in Post-Mao China 7. Symbolic City/Regions and Gendered Identity Formation in South China 8. "Net-Moms": A New Place and a New Identity – Parenting Discussion Forums on the Internet in China 9. The Village as Theme Park: Mimesis and Authenticity in Chinese Tourism 10. The Flows of Heroin, People, Capital, Imagination and the Spread of HIV in Southwest China 11. Negotiating Scale: Miao Women at a Distance 12. The Leaving of Anhui: The Southward Journey Towards the Knowledge Class