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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... (Steinmüller 2011: 22). In an article called 'The State of Irony in China', Hans Steinmüller gives two compelling examples of ironies about past and future that speak force- fully about the present condition of China. We recount these ...
... ( Steinmüller 2011 : 22 ) . Second , Steinmüller recounts the cynicism expressed by Lao Chen , the narrator in a dystopic science fiction novel called The Fat Years – China 2013. The novel paints a picture of life in China in the year ...
... Steinmüller's account both point out the emptiness behind the scenes and the meaninglessness of contradictory slogans , Hansen in this volume sets out to answer an intriguing question ; namely , why is it that ' offi- cialese ...
... Steinmüller's old cadre, Lao Ma, the emptiness of the present for these young nationalists lies in the fullness of the past. Obviously, the Han Clothing Movement exhibits an unusual intensity in its desire to rebuild a glorious past ...
... Steinmüller, Nikolaj Blichfeldt, and Teresa Kuan for taking part, and in particular, we owe a debt of gratitude to Professors Steven Sangren and Michael Puett for providing generous and useful comments that have guided our work. Mikkel ...
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