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Emptiness and Fullness - Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China (Hardcover)
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Emptiness and Fullness - Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Social Analysis
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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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