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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... role of conceptions of lack in con- temporary Chinese politics , Ann Anagnost described how elite discourse on population quality contributed to ' the concerted construction of “ the people " in terms of lack , unready for political ...
... role in the contemporary ethnography of China. While drawing inspiration from these different approaches to emerging sub- jectivities, this volume is an attempt to heed Chakrabarty's injunction 'To read “lack” otherwise' (2000: 34). In ...
... role of language makes his ideas more clearly relevant to anthropology, as Sangren has pointed out (2004: 114). In this volume, we draw inspiration from Lacanian ideas about lack, but in order to bring contemporary China into focus, we ...
... role in the formation of subjects and the transforma- tion of contemporary Chinese society. 'Who are you?' is the central question that people ask the victims of empty diseases in the Hebei village studied by Bunkenborg, and emptiness ...
... role of dynamics of emptying and filling in China, and while the diversity of these ethnographic accounts militates against any single conclusion as to what this emptiness really is, they do suggest that experiences and suspicions of ...
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