This section begins with the question of the education of migrant workers: since the masses have become a collection of consumers, and those in power want to create “good” subjects resigned to their fates, only the petty bourgeoisie is left to help educate the migrant workers—but only if they educate themselves in a mutual process. Yang then turns to several literary analyses to examine the representation of the petty bourgeoisie in contemporary post-Mao literature. Beginning with an examination of Bei Dao’s 1978 novel Waves, Yang traces the petty bourgeois subject through a selection of ’90s works before arriving at an extended close reading of Zhang Yueran’s 2009 story “Family.” Finally, after discussing several stories by Jiang Yitan and relating a general sense of contemporary nihilism to the 2010 Foxconn suicides, Yang arrives at the question of how to resist a history that has no history: “What is to be done?”