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Emptiness and fullness : ethnographies of lack and desire in contemporary China /
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 e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2017.
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| Colección: | Studies in social analysis ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Mikkel Bunkenborg, Susanne Bregnbæk
- 1. China's examination fever and the fabrication of fairness : "My generation was raised on poisoned milk" / Zachary M. Howlett
- 2. Guanhua! Beijing students, authoritative discourse and the ritual production of political compliance / Anders Sybrant Hansen
- 3. Interior spaces of hope : inner selves, intersubjectivity and agency among Chinese Christians in Beijing / Susanne Bregnbæk
- 4. The tower and the tower : excess and vacancy in China's ghost cities / Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne
- 5. The Manchu in the mirror : the emptiness of identity and the fullness of conspiracy theory / Kevin Carrico
- 6. Empty diseases and horror vacui in rural Hebei / Mikkel Bunkenborg
- 7. The potentials of feicui : indeterminacy and determination in human-jade interactions in South-West China / Henrik Kloppenborg Møller.