The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World
Good books capture critical moments. Liu has captured one here. Asian AnthropologyThe book as a piece of writing is fluid and graceful. Liu's ethnographic accounts are indeed masterly--deftly weaving dialogue, observation, metaphor, and analysis in a way that would make many writers (of both fiction and nonfiction) sigh with envy. Liu juxtaposes characters and incidents in such a way as to subtly highlight the themes at hand, using humor, irony, and understatement to bring to life the world of 'making up numbers.' Liu effectively suggests that the rise of statistics and the objective mode are, like the rise of Maoism and the ideological mode,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-611-3
- EAN: 9780857456113
- Produktnummer: 16234564
- Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 329 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 5
- Gewicht: 329
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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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