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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... ideologies and material objects. The fact that Lacan has 'de-essentialized' Freud's libido from biological drives and emphasizes the role of language makes his ideas more clearly relevant to anthropology, as Sangren has pointed out ...
... ideology, words and action. Zachary Howlett in the chapter 'China's Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness: My Generation was Raised on Poison Milk' addresses the ideology of the Chinese national college entrance exams ...
... ideologies as well as buildings and gems are prone to suspicions of emptiness and engage humans in processes of emp- tying and filling. Discussions of emptiness in China serve to question whether things are what they seem and what they ...
... ideology to pass an examination ( see also Hansen's chapter , this volume ) . In contrast to their attitude towards official slogans , however , examinees ' belief in the ' rel- ative fairness ' of the Gaokao evinces little cynicism ...
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