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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... Empty Diseases and Horror Vacui in Rural Hebei Mikkel Bunkenborg 104 - V - Chapter 7 The Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Contents.
... diseases known as 'empty diseases' (xubing 虚病) and suggests that possession by wild ghosts, spirits of deceased relatives or deities is predicated upon a prior condition of emptiness that lays the victim open to invasion from the ...
... empty diseases in the Hebei village studied by Bunkenborg, and emptiness is clearly not a context here, but something that affects the interior of subjects, some- thing that makes it doubtful who they are and renders them open to ...
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