{"product_id":"the-mirage-of-china-anti-humanism-narcissism-and-corporeality-of-the-contemporary-world-9780857456113","title":"The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003epriori\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xin Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857456113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiu, Xin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eXin Liu\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and Fellow of the Sociology Division, the E-Institutes of Shanghai Universities. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn One's Own Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (University of California Press, 2000) and \u003ci\u003eThe Otherness of Self\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Michigan Press, 2002); and editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Reflections on Anthropological Studies of (greater) China\u003c\/i\u003e (IEAS, UC Berkeley, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40223094669427,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_86f1a684-fcf1-44b1-8c8c-60b13fe40812.jpg?v=1656682437","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-mirage-of-china-anti-humanism-narcissism-and-corporeality-of-the-contemporary-world-9780857456113","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}