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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... institutions and ideolo- gies are not what they seem, critical voices accuse them of emptiness and they are thus laid open to new investments of meaning and value. Ethnographies of contemporary China describe how state discourse on ...
... institutions in rural China . In a more recent anthology entitled Deep China , Kleinman et al . ( 2011 ) explore how subjectivities in China are affected by this lack of moral consistency . Delving below the surface of government ...
... institutions, 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 ...
... institutions to movements for cultural revival, and from ghost cities to the workshops of jade carvers. It also becomes clear that the specific instances and invocations of emptiness and fullness addressed in the individual con ...
... institutional arrangements and the ideals towards which those arrangements are oriented . Ultimately unrealizable , they obscure the exploitative aspects of those arrangements . In this way Howlett argues that the achievement of fair ...
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Emptiness and Fullness: Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China Susanne Bregnb©Œk,Mikkel Bunkenborg Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |