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Contents

List of Illustrations

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: Inner Selves, Intersubjectivity, and Agency 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 South-West China
Henrik Kloppenborg Møller

Index

Emptiness and Fullness

Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China

Edited by Susanne Bregnbæk and Mikkel Bunkenborg

154 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-580-8 Hb Published (July 2017)

eISBN 978-1-80539-868-4 eBook