Emptiness and Fullness: Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781785335808)

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China.