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Dreadful desires : the uses of love in neoliberal China / Charlie Yi Zhang.
Lippincott Library HD4904.25 .Z445 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Charlie Yi, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Thought in the act
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Work and family--China.
- Work and family.
- Work-life balance--China.
- Work-life balance.
- Women--China--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women.
- Women--Employment--China.
- Sex role--China.
- Sex role.
- Neoliberalism--China.
- Neoliberalism.
- Communism and love--China.
- Communism and love.
- Women--Employment.
- Women--Social conditions.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Dreadful Desires investigates how love is orchestrated as an apparatus of sentiments integrating individual subject making with exploitative policies to serve collective interests of the Chinese state and transnational capital. Drawing upon discursive analysis, empirical data, and ethnographic fieldwork as well as popular culture texts, Charlie Yi Zhang investigates how love is orchestrated as an apparatus of sentiments through the systems of gender, class, and sexuality that integrates individual subject-making with regulation of population to serve collective interests of the Chinese state and transnational capital. Zhang deciphers the ways in which love is projected as a cluster of desirable potentialities, such as private property ownership, upward mobility, and endurable heteronormative intimacy, that generate enduring attachment shaping people's subjectivities. These love-impelled individual subjectivities are aligned with gendered, classed, and sexualized regulation of population by the state to reproduce cheap labor that has fueled China's marketization and reintegration with the global economy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Mapping the Edgeless Landscape of Love"
- Love of the Zeitgeist: Temporalized Desire in the PRC's 60th Anniversary Ceremony
- "Only If You Are the One!": The Expansive Neoliberal Universe through Love Competitors' Eyes
- "Tracing the Machinery That Both Integrates China into and Separates It from the World"
- The Woeful Landscape of Love: Work Hard, Dream Big, and Die Slowly
- Lessons from the Polarizing Love: Mapping Contradictions for Social Change
- Love with an Unspeakable Name: The Exceptional Danmei World as the Escape Route
- Envisioning a Love-Enabled Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zhang, Charlie Yi, 1979- Dreadful desires
- ISBN:
- 9781478015376
- 1478015373
- 9781478017998
- 1478017996
- OCLC:
- 1245344065
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