Bregnbæk / Bunkenborg Emptiness and Fullness

Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-581-5
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 154 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Studies in Social Analysis

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bregnbæk, Susanne

Bunkenborg, Mikkel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Interiority, Inter-subjectivity and Discontent 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 Southeast China

Henrik Kloppenborg Møller

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bregnbæk, Susanne
Susanne Bregnbæk is assistant professor at University College Capital in Copenhagen, where she is working on socially vulnerable children and their families in Denmark.

Bunkenborg, Mikkel
Mikkel Bunkenborg is an associate professor in China Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.