An identifiable set of film narratives have largely emerged in China’s neoliberal moment since the 1980s and especially after the 2000s when China has been more engaged with the processes of globalisation, modernisation, urbanisation (Rofel 2007 Ong and Zhang 2008). This thesis argues that there is a genre of film concerned with the travels of disenfranchised women in 21st century Chinese cinema. Paying attention to moments of discordant expectations, in the form of expressions of impatience, can illuminate the logics of temporal balancing in the domains of work, play, and rest. This balancing act is gendered: women, and especially mothers, are charged with protecting the moral status of their families and their children through effective temporal balancing.
Drawing upon two distinct periods of fieldwork among middle-class families in urban China between 20, I show how Chinese subjects balance private, public, and interpersonal claims on time, creating hybrid approaches to time management that I refer to as chrono-socialism with Chinese characteristics.
It traces how competing claims to, and experiences of, time as a limited resource shape the terms of moral engagement among middle-class women, their families, their employers, and their friends. This article addresses the management and control of time in contemporary urban China.
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