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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... slogan of 'The Chinese Dream' (Zhongguo meng 中国梦) much speculation has gone into discerning its mean- ing and scope. Chinese citizens ask themselves 'is this empty rhetoric or does it have some political content?' Chinese slogans are ...
... slogans , Hansen in this volume sets out to answer an intriguing question ; namely , why is it that ' offi- cialese ' ( guanhua 官话) appears to work even when it is regarded as empty talk ? He argues that the actual content of ...
... slogans , however , examinees ' belief in the ' rel- ative fairness ' of the Gaokao evinces little cynicism . In light of glaring social disparities in educational opportunity – which I further outline below – this relative lack of ...
... slogan put it, the only way to 'beat the second-generation rich' (pin de guo fu'erdai 拼得过富二代), who are widely perceived to rely on their parents' wealth and connections to succeed in society. The Gaokao thus constitutes a ...
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