Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China
Charlie Yi Zhang, "Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China "
English | ISBN: 1478017996 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1478017996 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy. Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal attachment, upward mobility, and private property ownership. These desires—as circulated in performance in the nationalistic ceremony, same-sex romantic fan fiction, the wildly popular reality television dating show
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