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类别 页数 译者 网友评分 年代 出版社
书籍 209页 6.8 2020 Berghahn Books
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USD 90.00 2020-02-20 … 2020-06-17 … 20
主题/类型/题材/标签
人类学,海外中国研究,当代中国,anthropology,,刘新,statistics,,社会学,中国,
作者
Xin Liu      ISBN:9781845455453    原作名/别名:《》
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The Mirage of China摘要

“Good books capture critical moments. Liu has captured one here.” · Asian Anthropology

“The 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, a phase in history that may or may not appear equally ridiculous in years to come. Can we see outside our own spot in history, Liu asks, and should we (and the people of China) give up dreaming and utopias merely because our current historical moment favors the narcissistic, corporeal statistic?” · H-Ideas

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.

作者简介

Xin Liu is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of In One's Own Shadow (UC Press) and The Otherness of Self (U. of Michigan Press) and the editor of New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of (greater) China (IEAS Monograph Series, UC Berkeley).

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