Chapter 1 China’s Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness ‘My Generation Was Raised on Poisoned Milk’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 China’s Examination Fever and the Fabrication of Fairness ‘My Generation Was Raised on Poisoned Milk’ 15
6. Chapter 2 Guanhua! Beijing Students, Authoritative Discourse and the Ritual Production of Political Compliance 35
7. Chapter 3 Interior Space s of Hope: Inner Selves, Intersubjectivity and Agency among Chinese Christians in Beijing 52
8. Chapter 4 The Tower and The Tower: Excess and Vacancy in China’s Ghost Cities 67
9. Chapter 5 The Manchu in the Mirror: The Emptiness of Identity and the Fullness of Conspiracy Theory 85
10. Chapter 6 Empty Diseases and Horror Vacui in Rural Hebei 104
11. Chapter 7 The Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade Interactions in South-west China 120
12. Index 139