Emptiness and Fullness : : Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China /

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

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bregnbæk, Susanne,
Bunkenborg, Mikkel,
Carrico, Kevin,
Hansen, Anders Sybrandt,
Howlett, Zachary M.,
Møller, Henrik Kloppenborg,
Ulfstjerne, Michael Alexander,
HerausgeberIn:
Bregnbæk, Susanne,
Bunkenborg, Mikkel,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in Social Analysis ; 2
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (154 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of 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

Similar Items