Emptiness and Fullness: Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary ChinaSusanne Bregnbæk, Mikkel Bunkenborg Berghahn Books, 1. jul. 2017 - 154 sider 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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... Han Clothing Movement, whose members anchor their utopian longings in the glorious past of the Han Dynasty (From 206 ... Chinese culture. Somewhat like Steinmüller's old cadre, Lao Ma, the emptiness of the present for these young ...
... Chinese people to overcome a century of colonial humiliation and contribute to the renaissance of Chinese civilization. When members of the Han Clothing Movement suggest that the Chinese state apparatus, notably the National Health and ...
... Chinese society. 'Who are you?' is the central question that people ask the victims of empty diseases in the Hebei ... Han Clothing Movement, what is lacking in the present becomes apparent when they measure contemporary society ...
Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China Susanne Bregnbæk, Mikkel Bunkenborg. also ' emptier ' . Much as ' primitive ' ethnic minorities serve as the foil for the ' civilized ' Han majority ( Fiskesjö 2006 ) , the ...
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