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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... Fairness : ' My Generation was Raised on Poisoned Milk ' vii 1 Zachary M. Howlett 15 Chapter 2 Guanhua ! Beijing Students , Authoritative Discourse and the Ritual Production of Political Compliance Anders Sybrandt Hansen 35 Chapter 3 ...
... Fairness: My Generation was Raised on Poison Milk' addresses the ideology of the Chinese national college entrance exams (gaokao 高考) through the lens of what he calls 'the fabrication of fairness'. He points to what is seemingly a ...
... fairness in the university entrance examinations, where people note the discrepancy between ideals and realities without much hope that this emptiness will lead to meaningful changes. Presenting fresh ethnographic data from a broad ...
... ' The Good Samaritan's New Trouble : A Study of the Changing Moral Landscape in Contemporary China ' , Social Anthropology 17 ( 1 ) : 9–24 . Chapter 1 CHINA'S EXAMINATION FEVER AND THE FABRICATION OF FAIRNESS Introduction 13.
... FAIRNESS ' My Generation Was Raised on Poisoned Milk ' Zachary M. Howlett ' Without the Gaokao , there would be social revolution in China ' . This was how a high - school principal in rural southeastern China – Mr Gu – described the ...
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