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Emptiness and Fullness : Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China / ed. by Mikkel Bunkenborg, Susanne Bregnbæk.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Social Analysis ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (154 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785335808
  • 9781785335815
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.5/440951 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1131 .E47 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 China’s Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness ‘My Generation Was Raised on Poisoned Milk’ -- Chapter 2 Guanhua! Beijing Students, Authoritative Discourse and the Ritual Production of Political Compliance -- Chapter 3 Interior Space s of Hope: Inner Selves, Intersubjectivity and Agency among Chinese Christians in Beijing -- Chapter 4 The Tower and The Tower: Excess and Vacancy in China’s Ghost Cities -- Chapter 5 The Manchu in the Mirror: The Emptiness of Identity and the Fullness of Conspiracy Theory -- Chapter 6 Empty Diseases and Horror Vacui in Rural Hebei -- Chapter 7 The Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade Interactions in South-west China -- Index
Summary: As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China: In the ostensibly meritocratic exam system and the rhetoric of officials, in underground churches, housing bubbles, and nationalist fantasies, in bodies possessed by spirits and evaluations of jade, there is a pervasive concern with states of lack and emptiness and the contributions suggest that this play of emptiness and fullness is crucial to ongoing constructions of quality, value, and subjectivity in China.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 China’s Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness ‘My Generation Was Raised on Poisoned Milk’ -- Chapter 2 Guanhua! Beijing Students, Authoritative Discourse and the Ritual Production of Political Compliance -- Chapter 3 Interior Space s of Hope: Inner Selves, Intersubjectivity and Agency among Chinese Christians in Beijing -- Chapter 4 The Tower and The Tower: Excess and Vacancy in China’s Ghost Cities -- Chapter 5 The Manchu in the Mirror: The Emptiness of Identity and the Fullness of Conspiracy Theory -- Chapter 6 Empty Diseases and Horror Vacui in Rural Hebei -- Chapter 7 The Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade Interactions in South-west China -- Index

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As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China: In the ostensibly meritocratic exam system and the rhetoric of officials, in underground churches, housing bubbles, and nationalist fantasies, in bodies possessed by spirits and evaluations of jade, there is a pervasive concern with states of lack and emptiness and the contributions suggest that this play of emptiness and fullness is crucial to ongoing constructions of quality, value, and subjectivity in China.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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