...Tamara Jacka In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi , or “quality,” of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy...

...: the notion of suzhi (quality). By examining the position of suzhi in a broader discourse concerning the population and its attributes (which also intersects with key notions of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship) I shed light on the fortunes of what I refer to as “technoscientific reasoning...

... between place, suzhi (quality), and the migrant body is made to appear logical and commonsensical. I consider a common discursive practice of branding the baomu (maid), namely identifying the domestic worker and comments on the service provided by the domestic worker according to her place of origin (e.g...

...T. E. Woronov This article is a close study of the discourses and practices of suzhi jiaoyu or “Education for Quality” in contemporary Beijing. Through a study of efforts to raise the “quality” of the capital's children in order to raise the “quality” of the Chinese nation and its future...

... of “bad parenting,” in contrast to stories about children who, despite limitations or difficulties, manage to ascend to great heights thanks to “good parenting.” This article examines two well-known public stories that circulated in the early 2000s in relation to the reform movement known as suzhi jiaoyu...

...Luigi Tomba This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” ( shequ jianshe , as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious...

... in this regard: a growing concern with quality (suzhi) as a standard for assessing populations and individuals, and the role of the Chinese state as an arbiter of market- oriented policies. Recent scholarship on Chinese society has charted a growing...

... coastal development.8 She maintains that Chi- nese citizens “borrow the legitimacy of human capital” in the form of the suzhi (human quality) discourse, thus “creating a new image of the cultured, modern, ‘good businessperson...

.... This relationship is not the same every- where but is shaped in a speci c cultural context of social comparison. In the case of China, this otherness is often mapped on rural migrants in the discourse of suzhi (quality), an indigenous way of narrating...

... . 2009 . “ Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC .” positions 17 , no. 3 : 523 – 35 . Jackson Michael . 2000 . At Home in the World . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jackson Michael . 2005 . Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects...

... so that they could invest resources in enhancing each child’s quality (suzhi). This new genera- tion could then better advance nationalist goals of economic growth and modernity.15 Family planning propaganda in Vietnam...

... University Press . Anagnost Ann . 2004 . “ The Corporeal Politics of Quality (Suzhi) .” Public Culture 16 , no. 2 : 189 – 208 . Anagnost Ann Arai Andrea Ren Hai eds. 2013 . Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times . Stanford, CA...

... it difficult to create a clear “outside” in which particular subjects are deemed incapable of embodying desires properly or are condemned for displaying passions that turn them into persons with low quality (suzhi).34 Neoliberalism has created powerful...

... bitterness” performances in order to create a new class order and a new political consciousness. In the current moment, this use of negative models articulates with discourses on suzhi, or “quality,” in which Fan and others serve as negative...

... . 2009 . “ Suzhi , the Body, and the Fortunes of Technoscientific Reasoning in Contemporary China .” positions 17 , no. 3 : 537 – 66 . Wolf Eric . 1990 . “ Distinguished Lecture: Facing Power—Old Insights, New Questions .” American Anthropologist 92 , no. 3 : 586 – 96 . Wu...

... – 46; and Yan Hairong, “Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Networks,” Cultural Anthropology 18, no. 4 (2003): 493 – 523. 10. See Zhang, “Strangers in the City”; Yan...

... on quality characteristics in both individuals and populations. The indigenous Pashigian ‚ Counting One’s Way onto the Global Stage 535 idea of quality (suzhi) of people has provided fertile ground for under- standing how individuals in China act...

.... For scholarship on how discourses of national development Lukacs ∣∣ Guest Editor’s Introduction 409 branded the labor mobility of migrants as a form of suzhi accumulation, see Ann Anagnost...

... of a “relatively affluent” future China, He further notes, the middle class should be not only economically well off, but also high in spiritual-cultural quality (sixi- angwenhua suzhi). Thus the making of the middle class, as a foundational...

... of idealized images of “family,” all bearing a distinctive 1970s trademark. Though the one-­child policy was not formally adopted until 1979, ensuring the “qual- ity [suzhi]” of the population through birth control had already become...