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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... moral or spiritual vacuum, and the valorization of authentic 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 ...
... moral emptiness discussed in the chapters in this volume. First, Steinmüller tells the story of an old cynical peasant cadre who is the laughing stock of the village, because he nostalgically longs for a Maoist past. Despite the fact ...
... morality . In Lao Chen's case , the present is measured against the fat years of a not - so - distant future , but this golden age turns out to be hollow because it builds upon amnesia in the present . Measured against the past or the ...
... morality and for having created a soci- ety without moral bearings . Chinese society is often said to be troubled by a ' moral crisis ' or ' spiritual vacuum ' that has lasted ever since the end of Maoism . A widespread concern with a ...
... morally dubious society, Rofel suggests that these new subjects with interior aspirations and desires are shaped ... moral crisis, or as an implicit corollary of the production of desiring subjects, constructions of lack and desire ...
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Emptiness and Fullness: Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China Susanne Bregnb©Œk,Mikkel Bunkenborg Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |