The Mirage of China - Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World (Paperback)

Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People's Republic - as essential conditions for the possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification. As the author argues, an epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the present age of the People's Republic, which appears on the global stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at the present time.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Xin Liu
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-0-85745-611-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-85745-611-3
Barcode:	9780857456113

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