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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... Inner Selves , Intersubjectivity and Agency among Chinese Christians in Beijing Susanne Bregnbæk 52 Chapter 4 The Tower and The Tower : Excess and Vacancy in China's Ghost Cities Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne 67 Chapter 5 The Manchu in ...
... inner selves thus goes hand in hand with critique of an exterior world deemed to be hollow and false. Diagnoses of lack seem to cut across a whole range of different domains: people in search of a new faith, educational reforms ...
... inner selves ; rather , such inte- riorities grew out of engagements with public culture and gradually became furnished with the longings and desires appropriate to a neoliberal economy . Like Kleinman, Rofel emphasizes the emergence of ...
... inner selves in the postsocialist era, but while Kleinman tends to describe the expansion of interiority more as a retreat from a morally dubious society, Rofel suggests that these new subjects with interior aspirations and desires are ...
... inner void that conversion to Christianity can fill out . In this sense , Bregnbæk argues , what may at first glance appear as a retreat from politics into private house - churches and a turning inwards, can also be a way of 8 | Mikkel ...
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