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