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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