Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today's urban China, and how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among young white-collar women in their twenties and thirties.

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Xinyan Peng is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology in the School of Sociology and Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University in China. She previously taught at the Department of Anthropology in the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shandong University. Her research was awarded the David M. Schneider Award by the American Anthropological Association and the Best Paper Prize by the journal Asian Anthropology. Her research specializations and interests include labor/work, family/kinship, gender, and the body.

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Introduction Part I: Work 1. The 6 p.m. Struggle: Changing Configurations of Work, a Culture of Overtime Work, and Corporate Governmentality 2. Falling Into the "Work Hole"?: Accommodating a Culture of Overtime Work 3. Protecting Work: Desiring Stability, Developing the Worker-Self, and Improving Employability Part II: Body 4. "You've Got to Have Core Muscles": Disciplining Hardworking Bodies Part III: Home 5. Women Between Nei and Wai: Leaving Home to Work and Retreating from Work to Home 6. Spreadsheet Wife and Pep Talk Mom: Turning Home into Work 7. Doing the Job and Not Doing It Well: Grandmaternal Labor and Care Work in Urban Chinese Families