This essay examines the complicit hidden ties between the rise of
liberalist economic subject and the discursive mode of domination of
bio-ethical life in modern China. In late nineteenth and the beginning of
the twentieth century, there emerged a wide spread nexus of discourse
related to the formulation of a powerful psyche-force of the new people
for modern China. This mode of discursive formulation presents on the
one hand the psyche that is an autonomous and free agent in the line of
production for the individual's own interest, while at the same time the
psychic force is described as a countable, calculable, correctable,
controllable and utilizable moral force or capital for the interest of the
nation and the coming civil
