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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2024

Xiaoshuo Hou
Xiaoshuo Hou
Affiliation:
Skidmore College, New York

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Young and Restless in China
Informal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat
 , pp. 151 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

Index

2008 Labor Contract Law, 10, 47
2013 Amendment, 47, 51
2014 Interim Provisions on Labor Dispatch, 47
996 work culture, 1, 8, 39, 107, 127
algorithm, 111
Ant Cash Now. See Jiebei
Ant Credit Pay. See Huabei
Ant Tribes, 21
attendance bonuses, 53–55, 66
battle a factory, 87, 114
battling the shitty banker, 27
Beige T-Shirt, 95
betrothal gifts. See bride price
bike-sharing service, 36
black factory, 44, 47, 53, 67, 124
black labor market, 6
blacklist, 53, 61, 74–75, 117
black-skinned dogs, 115
blockchain, 62, 77
bride price, 99
bunk beds, 3, 34–35, 57, 86
business owner, 13, 16–17, 19, 24, 26, 36, 80–82, 85–86, 89, 100, 103, 114, 134, 136
camaraderie, 4, 39, 94, 129
campus recruitment, 113
cash for signing up. See dianxian
Chinese Communist Party, 122
city hopping, 125
clinical trial, 70
co-dependent relationship, 36, 81
collective action, xii, 21, 77, 111, 113, 117, 129
combative masculinity, 94, 104
commercial sex. See paid sex
commodification, 8, 20, 105
confrontation, 61, 95, 115–117, 124
construction site, 2, 49, 51–52, 64, 114, 117
consumer credit, 27–28
COVID-19 pandemic, xi, 21, 36
credit score, 29
crisis of manhood. See crisis of musculinity
crisis of musculinity, 112
crowdfunding for meals, 32, 38
cryptocurrency, 76
culture
consumerism, 3, 5, 69, 104, 128
day labor, xi–xii, 2, 7, 11, 16–18, 23, 25, 27–28, 30–34, 36, 38–40, 43, 46–49, 51–52, 55, 57, 60–62, 64, 66–67, 69–71, 73–74, 79–82, 84, 87–90, 96–97, 99–101, 103, 106, 109, 112–114, 117, 120, 124, 126, 128, 133, 138
day labor jobs, 17, 25, 27–28, 30–34, 36, 38–40, 44, 47, 51–52, 55, 60–61, 64, 67, 69–71, 73, 84, 87–88, 90, 96–97, 99–101, 106, 109, 113–114, 117, 120, 124, 128, 133, 138
debit card, 74
dianxian, 61, 69
diaomao, 4, 94, 136
digital nomads, 127
dispersal, 21, 118, 121
dormitory labor regime, 6, 46, 93
Douyin, 40, 44, 97
drifter, 127
dual land tenure system, 13, 15
e-commerce, 3, 49, 52, 61–63, 113
electronic payment, 44, 73
employment, formal, xii, 4, 6, 11–12, 21, 47, 56, 58, 113, 127
employment, individualized, 6
employment, informal, 7
employment service agency, 2, 6, 18, 26, 32, 49, 51, 56, 79, 91, 100–101, 106, 117, 120, 124
enclosure, 21, 25, 118–119
enter a factory. See jinchang
enter the factory. See jinchang
erfangdong. See head tenants
eviction, 118–119
exploitative factories. See black factory
factory dogs, 45
factory girl, 100
factory hopping, 125
factory jobs, full-time, 5
factory regime, 11, 19–20, 31, 34, 43–47, 67, 77, 79, 93, 111–114, 118, 124, 126
factory system. See factory regime
female sex worker. See xiaojie
femininity, 100, 106–109, 139
feminization of labor, 12
fixing a vehicle, 105
flexible employment, 10, 20, 34, 58, 112, 127
flexible payment, 58
floating population, 124
flophouses, 17–18, 24, 34, 57, 114, 119, 134
frauds, 5, 71, 75, 89
frauds and scammers, 75
gambling, 3, 5, 16–17, 23, 27–28, 30–31, 37–38, 68–71, 76–77, 80, 83, 87–88, 102–103, 107–108, 114–115, 126
gambling debt, 27–28
gambling dogs, 28, 31
gay men, 107
GCC. See cryptocurrency
gentrification, 15, 82, 118, 120–121, 124
Glasses, xii, 18, 22–23, 26, 30, 34–36, 52, 57, 63, 68, 79–80, 86–90, 117, 119, 136–137
Glasses Chen, 68, 136
great god. See great gods of Sanhe
great gods of Sanhe, vii, ix, xii, 1, 3–6, 12, 16–23, 25–27, 30, 32, 36–40, 43–47, 51, 59–60, 66–71, 73, 75–76, 78–80, 82–83, 86, 89, 92, 94–98, 100–101, 103–105, 107, 109, 112, 114–121, 123–129, 131–137, 139–140
guabi, 3–4, 36, 38–39, 45, 60, 64, 66, 70, 101, 108, 114, 125
guabi boys, 4
guabi lifestyle. See Guabi
guabi woman, 4, 101
Guangdong, 26, 32, 52, 86–87, 98, 102
Haixin Grand Hotel, 26
Haixin Square, 3–4, 17, 19, 31, 33, 39, 51, 66, 69, 73, 83, 87, 116, 139
Haixinxin Human Resources Market, 2
Hat Bro, 23, 30, 79–81, 87–88, 121
head tenants, 16, 82, 114
health insurance, 56
hegemonic masculinity, 92, 102, 104, 109, 112
heteronormativity, 107, 109
homosexual sex, 106
homosexuality, 108
hourly rate subsidy, 53, 55
household registration. See hukou
housing provident fund, 10, 26
Huabei, 28
hukou, 9, 12, 14, 57, 124, 131
human resources service license, 50
Hunan, 95, 98, 103, 125
illegal labor market. See black labor market
illegal market, 75–76
illicit businesses, 39, 71, 77, 100
informal economy, 7, 11, 16, 20, 36, 80, 136
informal precarious workers, 9, 16, 18, 20, 43, 75, 114, 125–126
informal settlements, 14, 16
informality, 8–9, 56, 81
intermediaries in the chain. See intermediary chain
intermediary, 11, 13, 16–17, 19–20, 27, 31, 33–34, 45, 48–54, 56, 61, 63–64, 66–67, 70–71, 73–74, 76, 79, 89, 99–102, 104–105, 109, 112–114, 116–117, 119, 125–126, 128, 133, 135–136
intermediary chain, xii, 11
internal referral system, 48
Internet café, 3–4, 17–18, 20, 24–25, 28, 31, 34–35, 57, 79–80, 82–86, 112, 114, 119, 122, 134
internet celebrity economy, 97
involution, 1
Jiebei, 28
jilao. See gay men
jinchang, 26, 34, 40, 43, 46–47, 54, 58
Jingle. See Jingle New Village
Jingle New Village, ix, 3–4, 7, 15–18, 23–26, 30–32, 34–39, 46–47, 51, 55, 57, 59, 67, 70, 80–86, 95, 98–99, 106, 114–116, 119–122, 124, 133, 135–137
job tenure, 56, 59, 128
Kunshan, xiii, 7, 16, 18, 23, 26, 35, 38, 46, 48, 50, 52, 55, 116, 118–119, 125, 128, 138
labor
informal, 8, 51, 136
labor bureau, 51
labor dispatch, 6, 10, 47, 50
labor intensity, 19
labor shortage, 11, 20, 47, 53, 58, 111, 113
labor subcontracting, 6
labor, gendered, xii
labor, precarious, xii, 8, 11, 13, 20
land for dwelling, 14
land nationalization, 14
laoge, 4, 18, 24, 26–27, 29, 32, 34–36, 39, 69, 75–76, 81, 84–86, 96, 101, 104–105, 107–109, 115, 117, 119, 122, 136, 140
legal representative, 71, 116
legitimacy, xii, 10, 21, 46, 77
LGBTQ, 108
livelihood strategies, 126
loan, 28–29, 71, 76, 81, 89, 126
local villagers. See original residents
low-desire life, 2, 39, 69, 98
lying flat, 1, 21, 110
lying motionless, 21, 38, 66
marriageability, 98
masculinity, 12, 20, 92–97, 100, 102, 104–105, 109, 114, 139–140
masculinity, hybridized, 104, 109, 139
masculinity, working-class, 94
migrant enclave, 6–7, 13
migrant status, 111
mobilization, 117, 129
mobilizing power, 111
moderately well-off society, 67
moral boundaries, 31, 79, 89
multilevel marketing, 77
mutual trust. See co-dependent relationship
neoliberal globalization, 8
neoliberalization, 8
noncompliance, 11
nongmingong. See worker, peasant
nonlocals, 46
old brother. See laoge
a one-day tour of the factory. See dianxian
online retailer, 28, 62, 84
online shopping festival, 62
opening the treasure chest, 32
original residents, 16, 18, 43, 51, 66, 82, 112, 114
P2P lending, 28–29
paid sex, 94, 104, 106–107, 109
paolu, 44
parapolice, 17, 34–35, 77, 137–138
permanent employment, 9–10
pig-butchering scam, 77, 88
postsocialist subject, 118
precariat, 7, 12, 21, 126
precarity, xii, 8–9, 11–12, 18, 20, 56, 80, 104, 112, 114, 124, 126
precarization of worker, 8, 12–13, 18–19, 75, 81, 104, 111
productivism, 114
protest, 46, 79, 95
quick cash, 3, 61, 69–70, 72
real-name registration, 74
Red T-Shirt, 22, 55, 67, 75, 136
reform of China, 5
resistance, 5, 20–21, 46, 67, 110–112, 114, 116–118, 125, 139
right to the city, 21
run. See paolu
sang culture, 1
salespeople for grey sectors. See intermediary
same day pay square. See Haixin Square
Sanhe dashen. See great gods of Sanhe
Sanhe gods. See great gods of Sanhe
Sanhe philosopher. See Song, Chunjiang
Sanhe Talent Market, ix, 2, 7, 17, 23, 31, 33, 51, 99, 116, 119, 122, 133, 139
Sanhe Tycoon, 31, 139
security booths, 121
security gate, 24, 33, 116, 134, 136
security guard, 2, 24, 32, 34, 38, 56, 69, 78, 93, 96, 99, 113
self-employed migrants, 6
self-termination, 53, 57
Service V-Station for party members and the masses, 120, 137
service workers, 6
sex encounter, 105
sex for pleasure, 108
sex for reproduction, 108
sex ratio, 40
sex service, 39
Shaanxi, 22, 32, 66, 84, 102, 115, 125
Shenzhen, xi–xii, 2, 5, 7, 14–16, 23, 26, 32, 34–36, 39–40, 45–46, 50–51, 55, 57–58, 60–61, 63, 69, 75, 82–83, 91, 103, 116, 118–120, 125, 127–128, 133, 137–138
Shuangfeng Noodle Shop, ix, 36, 40–41, 122, 134
Sister Hong, 27, 38–40, 86, 101, 136
social capital in migrant enclaves, 6
social class, 8, 12, 21, 92, 94, 135
social insurance account, 26, 56–57
social media, xii, 1–2, 16–19, 21–22, 27, 30, 38, 40, 43–44, 59, 66, 70, 73, 75–77, 95, 100–101, 105, 109, 118, 120, 127–128, 133–134, 136
soft porn, 105
Song Zong. See Song, Chunjiang
Song, Chunjiang, 38–40, 43, 129, 136
stabilizing. See Wenzhu
staffing agencies. See employment service agency
state, xii, 6, 8–11, 13–16, 18–21, 25, 28, 36, 46, 51, 63, 67, 71, 74–75, 77, 81–83, 96, 98, 105–106, 108, 110–111, 113, 115–121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 134, 136–138
state authority, 96, 135, 137
student interns, 54, 113, 128
subcontractor, 51
surveillance camera, 35, 40, 71, 77, 116, 137
the five kinds of social insurance. See wuxian yijin
tongzhi. See gay men
underclass, 21, 126
unscrupulous job intermediary, 51, 63, 116, 119
urban housing allocation, 13
urban management officer, 61
urban nomads, 126
urban village, 3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 34, 77, 81, 86, 89, 114, 118, 133
Waste Picker, 68
WeChat, ix, 23, 27, 30, 33, 44, 59, 64, 71–72, 79–80, 88, 91, 106, 120, 139
Wenzhu, 44
work for one day and play for three days, 3, 62
worker
day laborer, xi, 2, 7, 25, 28, 31, 34, 46, 49, 52, 55–56, 60–64, 67, 74, 79–82, 113–114, 117, 133
dispatch, 10–11, 48, 113
formal, xii, 7, 11, 20–21, 48–49, 53, 55–56, 58–59, 70, 113, 120, 128
hourly paid. See worker, tempory
low-skilled, xii, 34, 36–37, 39, 43, 58, 93, 99, 114, 119, 127
migrant, xi–xii, 2–14, 16–21, 26, 32, 34, 38, 44–46, 51, 54, 57, 82, 86, 92–93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 106, 109, 111–114, 118–120, 124–125, 127–129, 132–133, 140
peasant, 126
second-generation migrant, 4, 7
sex, 17, 20, 39, 94, 105, 108
skilled, 104
tempory, 11, 46, 48–50, 53–56, 58, 61, 80, 113
worker lay-offs, 10
worker, precarity of, xii
working class, 12, 21, 92, 94, 105, 126, 139
Wuhan, 80, 84–87, 102
wuxian yijin, 10, 55
xiaojie, 106
Yellow T-Shirt, 26, 98
youth, 1, 8, 21, 106, 110, 112, 122, 124, 127–128
Zhonghuayuan, ix, 7, 16, 18–19, 23, 29, 36–37, 46–47, 51, 64, 67, 69–72, 76–77, 81–83, 85, 91–92, 97, 99, 104, 116–117, 136

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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009511735.010
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