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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Bregnbæk, Susanne (Éditeur intellectuel), Bunkenborg, Mikkel (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Collection:Studies in social analysis ; v. 2.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.