Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household Appliances: Postcolonial Politics
Autor Wang Min’an Traducere de Shaobo Xieen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
In these essays, the author stages a Latourian collapse of subject and object in adopting the point of view of both human and non-human actants. This volume brings a new sensibility to bear on objects of modern everyday life. This work is not a "China book," but rather a work marked profoundly by China. Wang experiments with the applicability of "theory" to what might be thought of as a transcultural common life embedded in mundane technologies. The book is particularly concerned with rescuing everyday materiality and bodily life from the numb obscurity to which things have been relegated by modern consumerism and bourgeois hygiene.
This book is not an oddity from the mysterious East; it is a playful experiment in writing from a unique scholar, a leading thinker and theorist in the humanities in China, and will be of interest to scholars and students of East Asian, particularly Chinese, political and domestic studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367886523
ISBN-10: 0367886529
Pagini: 115
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Postcolonial Politics
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367886529
Pagini: 115
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Postcolonial Politics
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
1. Washing Machine 2. Refirgerator 3. Radio 4. Television 5. Cellphone 6. Computer 7. Electric Light 8. Contemporary Household Spatial Production 9. Postscript
Notă biografică
Wang Min’an is a Professor in the School of Literature at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He is a leading thinker and theorist in the humanities in China.
Descriere
Unconventional, creative, and highly original, this book centres on the assemblage of household machines that create the space of contemporary domesticity. It offers a new understanding of how the sudden commodification of domestic space in China beginning in the late 1980s has transformed Chinese domestic life beyond recognition.