Charlie Yi Zhang

Dreadful Desires

The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China

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Produktbeschreibung

Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population in order to secure Chinaâ s place in the global economy.

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Produktdetails

• Thought in the Act
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017998
• ISBN-10: 1478017996
• Artikelnr.: 61435752

Autorenporträt

Charlie Yi Zhang is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I. Mapping the Edgeless Landscape of Love
1. Love of the Zeitgeist: Temporalized Desire in the PRC's
Sixtieth-Anniversary Ceremony  35
2. Only If You Are the One! The Expansive Neoliberal Universe through Love
Competitors' Eyes  60
Part II. Tracing the Machinery That Both Integrates China into and
Separates It From the World
3. The Woeful Landscape of Love: Work Hard, Dream Big, and Die Slowly  97
4. Lessons from the Polarizing Love: Mapping Contradictions for Social
Change  127
5. Love with an Unspeakable Name: The Exceptional Danmei World as the
Escape Route  155
Conclusion. Envisioning a Love-Enabled Future  177
Notes  187
Bibliography  227
Index  255