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Acknowledgments

This book has emerged slowly, drawing on nearly two decades of study and research. I have incurred many debts of gratitude along the way.

From my undergraduate years, I would like to recognize the lasting influence of Gary Wilder, Sam Yamashita, and Kevin Platt, all fantastic and dedicated educators. From my first years in New York, I would like to thank John Chin, Richard Elovich, Kate Hunt, Dorinda Welle, and Carol Vance. Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Daniel Wolfe at Open Society Foundations were wise, kind, and supportive bosses and mentors.

In the Bay Area, Vincanne Adams and Liu Xin shaped this project in crucial ways. In her capacity as chair of my dissertation committee, Vincanne Adams was a kind and responsive mentor, a talented teacher, and an insightful reader. Liu Xin had his office door open at crucial moments and saw early on that this project might focus on temporality. Matthew Kohrman and Deborah Gordon have been cherished mentors. Alex Beliaev, Anthony Stavrianakis, and Eric Plemons were key readers of my dissertation. My fellow UCSF cohort mates Jeff Schonberg, Kelly Knight, and Liza Buchbinder provided support and friendship. Other people I would like to thank include Saleem Al-Baholy, Philippe Bourgois, Lawrence Cohen, Katie Hendy, Judith Justice, Eugene Raikhel, Laura Schmidt, Ian Whitmarsh, and Emily Wilcox. Emily Chua requires special mention for well over a decade of friendship and impactful conversations.

My deep appreciation to wonderful colleagues and friends who made working and living in China over the years a pleasure: Bao Xiuhong, Vincent Chin, Ge Rongling, Feng Yu, Ted Hammett, Sandra Hyde, Tom Kellogg, Li Dongliang, Li Jianhua, Ralph Litzinger, Liu Yu, Jen Liu-Lin and Craig Simons, Carrie Luo, Tim Manchester, Morgan Philbin, Michelle Rodolph, Kumi Smith, Victor Shih and Maria Goff, Wang Zhenxiu, Stephanie Weber, Xia Ying, Zhang Wei, Zhao Chengzheng, and Zhang Konglai. A note of gratitude as well to my Chinese teachers. I want to thank IHRD grantees in China and Indonesia whom I had the privilege of working with and learning from.

In Los Angeles, thank you to Jason Throop, Cheryl Mattingly, Josh Goldstein, Doug Hollan, the MMAC community, and the anthropology departments at UCLA and USC. A preliminary thank you as well to Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, Peter Loewenberg, Jeff Prager, and Bettina Soestwohner, my cohort mates and teachers at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, the Valley Community Counselling Clinic, and the international group relations community for your kindness in allowing me to explore an endlessly fascinating and enriching field.

At Barnard College and Columbia University, Rachel McDermott and Max Moerman in AMEC have been extraordinary senior colleagues and mentors. Lesley Sharp has gone above and beyond. Thanks as well to Ron Briggs, Michael Como, Nadia Abu El-Haj, Kathy Ewing, Sev Fowles, Guo Jue, Eugenia Lean, Lan Li, Lydia Liu, Elliot Paul, Haruo Shirane, Emily Sun, Christina Vizcarra, Carl Wennerlind, Ying Qian, and other colleagues in EALAC, AMEC, and anthropology. I also express gratitude to my excellent students, who have provoked my thinking and scholarship in important ways. A big thank you to the wonderful caregivers who have watched Naomi and Lucian.

I am particularly appreciative of the manuscript readers whose comments dramatically improved this book. Jennifer Hirsch, Kim Hopper, and Lesley Sharp generously organized a workshop through the Columbia Population Research Center that gave me valuable feedback on a nearly completed draft. The Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia sponsored a book workshop later that year. Myron Cohen, Dorothy Ko, Rachel McDermott, and Max Moerman provided enormously constructive and insightful comments. Special thanks to my outside readers: Ann Anagnost’s detailed feedback inspired additional attention to the legacies of the 1980s and unexpectedly enhanced my teaching; Bob Desjarlais’s perceptive comments and ongoing discussions in lunch meetups have enriched my understanding of the possibilities of fieldwork and sharpened the phenomenological focus of this book; and Angela Garcia’s suggestions and encouragement, alongside her inspiring work on addiction, have influenced this project for many years.

Sara Appel, Chris Bartlett, Lyle Fearnley, Emily Ng, Yang Jie, and Bharat Venkat made constructive suggestions on sections of the manuscript at various points. Discussions with Yukiko Koga, Jeremy Soh, and Allen Tran in recent years have been helpful. Two reviewers from UC Press, subsequently revealed to be Josh Burraway and Zhang Li, provided generous, careful, and perceptive comments that significantly improved this text. The book also benefited from comments at talks given over the years at UCSF, the Mind Medicine and Culture seminar at UCLA, Bucknell University, the Boas seminar and Modern China Seminar at Columbia, and numerous AAA, AES, and SPA panels.

Naor Ben-Yehoyada and Mara Green deserve special thanks. In our regular meetings, Mara and Naor have been the kindest and most provocative of interlocutors, energetic readers, and generous friends who on many occasions helped me to remember the joys of collaboration.

At the University of California Press, I owe thanks to Reed Malcolm, who patiently guided this project over several years, and to Archna Patel, who served as an expert and careful guide in ushering it into its final form. Thanks as well to Sharon Langworthy for superb, eagle-eyed copy edits, and to Heather Altfield for creating the index and additional attention to the text. Many thanks as well to Ariana King and Ross Yelsey at Weatherhead Books, Josh Jacobs for photograph-related coaching, Jennifer Schontz for help with the appendix table, former WEAI visiting fellow Zhang Fuyu and Wang Chengzhi for help in securing permissions, Jenny Zhan for interview transcriptions, and Mary Missari and Jessica Xu for departmental assistance.

I feel a special debt of gratitude to the residents of Gejiu. My initial intention was only to stay for a few months. However, I quickly found this was a special place, with many people whom I felt deeply connected to. Thank you for your generosity, hospitality, patience, and friendship. And a special thanks to the individuals whose experiences make up this text. To you I owe the greatest debt of gratitude. I wish you health, happiness, and a respite from the past to pursue futures of hope and possibility.

I have been able to conduct this research thanks to generous support from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research (DDRA) Abroad Fellowship, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Fellowship, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, a UCSF Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fellowship and Presidents’ Research Fellowship in the Humanities, and the UC Humanities Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Early research in China and recent costs related to publication were supported by the Columbia Weatherhead East Asian Institute. The Freeman Foundation deserves special thanks for funding a post-college table tennis project that provided me with my first opportunity to live in China.

Earlier versions of chapters 2 and 4 have been published elsewhere as “The Ones Who Struck Out: Entrepreneurialism, Heroin Addiction, and Historical Obsolescence in Reform Era China” (positions: asia critique 26, no. 3 [2018]: 423–49) and “Idling in Mao’s Shadow: Heroin Addiction and the Contested Therapeutic Value of Socialist Traditions of Laboring” (Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 42, no. 1 [2018]: 49–68).

I would like to finish by expressing my profound gratitude to family and friends who have sustained me over these many years. Adam deserves special recognition, not just for a lifelong friendship, but also for his role in helping to instigate my first trips to China and, later, pursuing a career in anthropology. Dave, Joe, and Mike deliver annual doses of sanity, twenty years and counting. Long live Team Oak! Thanks to Greg and Lee, Julie, Jeff, Zane and Sebastian, Cynthia, Josh, Abram and Dalya, Valerie, Anjali, Jon, Kate, and Phil, Kiran, Erica, Josh, Nazia, Najam, Seth, and Rachel for being there.

Thank you to my caring and wonderful mother-in-law Liz, as well as new family members Kristin and Omid. Liz, thanks for being your ebullient, hilarious, fun-loving self since before you became Cool Aunt Liz. Andrew, thank you for being such a caring, sensitive, and generous presence in my life from our first games of catch. Mom and Dad, your unconditional love and encouragement, and the inspirational example you show in how you live, have made everything else possible.

The arrival of Naomi and Lucian has been a source of joy and a welcome escape during the writing of this book. Naomi, your kindness, curiosity, and ability to connect to others astounds me. And Lucian, your sense of fun, restless spirit, and love of cooking bring me great joy. It is an honor to be your dad. I look forward to many future adventures with you both, including enjoying rice noodles followed by a climb to the top of Old Yin Mountain.

And finally, a last and most crucial thank you to Diana. You have been there for me through all the frustrations and small victories that have accompanied turning this project into a book. Your literary sensibility and intuitive understanding of this project dramatically improved my attempts to tell these stories. Much more important, your companionship over the last years has brought joy, security, and contentment to my life in ways I could never have imagined. Watching you flourish in your new profession and laughing while making sense of the world together have given me great pleasure. You are the most supportive and thoughtful partner a person could wish for.