The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World

Author:   Xin Liu (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
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9781282627659


Pages:   209
Publication Date:   30 June 2010
Format:   Electronic book text
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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.

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Author:   Xin Liu (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781282627659


ISBN 10:   1282627651
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   30 June 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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