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The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World
Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China...
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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.
Author: Xin Liu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781845455453
Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 93
About the Author
Liu, Xin: -
Xin Liu is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and Fellow of the Sociology Division, the E-Institutes of Shanghai Universities. He is the author of In One's Own Shadow (University of California Press, 2000) and The Otherness of Self (University of Michigan Press, 2002); and editor of New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of (greater) China (IEAS, UC Berkeley, 2004).
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