Desiring China – Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Desiring ChinaExperiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture\nAuthor(s): Lisa Rofel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822339359, 978-0822339359\nSynopsis\nThrough window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such desiring subjects is at the core of Chinas contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical, and theoretical, she contends that neoliberal subjectivities are created through the production of various desires-material, sexual, and affective-and that it is largely through their engagements with public culture that people in China are imagining and practicing appropriate desires for the po.
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