Emptiness and Fullness

Susanne Bregnbæk is assistant professor at University College Capital in Copenhagen, where she is working on socially vulnerable children and their families in Denmark.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionMikkel Bunkenborg and Susanne BregnbækChapter 1. China’s Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness: “My Generation was Raised on Poison Milk”Zachary M. HowlettChapter 2. Guanhua! Beijing Students, Authoritative Discourse, and the Ritual Production of Political ComplianceAnders Sybrandt HansenChapter 3. Interior Spaces of Hope: Inner Selves, Intersubjectivity, and Agency among Chinese Christians in BeijingSusanne BregnbækChapter 4. The Tower and The Tower: Excess and Vacancy in China’s Ghost CitiesMichael Alexander UlfstjerneChapter 5. The Manchu in the Mirror: The Emptiness of Identity and the Fullness of Conspiracy TheoryKevin CarricoChapter 6. Empty Diseases and Horror Vacui in Rural HebeiMikkel BunkenborgChapter 7. The Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade Interactions in South-West ChinaHenrik Kloppenborg MøllerIndex

“…an impressive, if short, volume. Harking back to structuralist ethnography’s attention to semiotic detail, its case studies show the importance of comparative ethnography built on linguistic, conceptual, and methodological rigour. Each chapter provides a rich array of Chinese keywords that warrant further attention, particularly in terms of their social the oretical implications…[This volume] showcases the conceptual breadth and linguistic rigour of the anthropology of China coming out of Europe today, synthesizing much of the existing literature and connecting it to well-presented case studies.” • Anthropos