Emptiness and fullness : ethnographies of lack and desire in contemporary China /: ethnographies of lack and desire in contemporary China. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susanne Bregnbæk, Mikkel Bunkenborg.
• Editors: Bregnbæk, Susanne; Bunkenborg, Mikkel
• Contents: Introduction ; Mikkel Bunkenborg and Susanne Bregnbæk Chapter 1. China's Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness: "My Generation was Raised on Poison Milk"; Zachary M. Howlett Chapter 2. Guanhua! Beijing Students, Authoritative Discourse, and the Ritual Production of Political Compliance; Anders Sybrandt Hansen Chapter 3. Interior Spaces of Hope: Inner Selves, Intersubjectivity, and Agency among Chinese Christians in Beijing; Susanne Bregnbæk Chapter 4. The Tower and the Tower: Excess and Vacancy in China's Ghost Cities; Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne Chapter 5. The Manchu in the Mirror: The Emptiness of Identity and the Fullness of Conspiracy Theory; Kevin Carrico Chapter 6. Empty Diseases and Horror Vacui in Rural Hebei; Mikkel Bunkenborg Chapter 7. The Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade Interactions in Southwest China; Henrik Kloppenborg Møller Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.5440951; Alienation (Social psychology) -- China; Alienation (Philosophy); China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785335815
• Related ISBNs: 9781785335808
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