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Xin Liu

The Mirage of China

Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-84545-906-2
  • EAN: 9781845459062
  • Produktnummer: 20450136
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 222 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 592 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Reihenbandnummer: 5

Über den Autor


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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