"A layered anthropology of capitalist rationality that deals with the subject-formation of agents, including the investigator. A deeply gender-sensitive multiple narrativation of the formation of collectivities in thirty-six women workers - and multiple a

"The book flouts the canons of professional social sciences and supplies an unapologetic, deprofessionalized ethnology. ... Such an ethnography demands a distinct style of participant observation that views social knowledge itself as a craft or vocation,

"With this bombshell of a book, Fred Chiu creates an entirely new sensibility. Combining the art of a storyteller with the wizardry of a sophisticated social theorist, he makes us laugh with rogue thought that takes your breath away with its startling cla

Fred Yen Liang Chiu is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Politics of Post-Modernity On Social Movements and Their Discourses (1995, in Chinese); editor of Taiwan A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies; and editor with Marshall Johnson of Subimperialism, a special issue of positions east asia cultures critique, vol. 8, no. 1., 2000.