Fooling the World or Fooling Itself: China’s Spectacular-Oneiric Society

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1241
dc.contributor.author	Lee Gregory
dc.title	Fooling the World or Fooling Itself: China’s Spectacular-Oneiric Society. An Intervention from a Critical Chinese Studies Perspective
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Since the ’90s, China’s economic power has grown massively, and with it the authorities’ desire to control and craft its global image. Yet, despite policed Internet and surveillance of its citizens, contestation of the authorities’ control has come from social, ecological and cultural activists. Since the start of the century, China has staged the Olympics, had a Chinese woman win the Miss World competition, and claims to wage a ‘war on terror’. A spectacle of a peaceful, harmonious and ‘normal’ country – a ‘China dream’ – is projected. This article seeks to apprehend the reality behind the dream and to show how China's current condition is the result of a historical domination by, but also voluntary engagement with, the ‘West’.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-12-19
dc.dateAccepted	2017-02-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-01-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-210-9/fooling-the-world-or-fooling-itself-chinas-spectac/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-190-4/SR-12-6
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-210-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-190-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	China
dc.subject	China
dc.subject	Globalization
dc.subject	Globalization
dc.subject	Modernity
dc.subject	Modernity
dc.subject	Postcolonial
dc.subject	Postcolonial
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Spectacular society
dc.subject	Spectacular society
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	Technology

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Fooling the World or Fooling Itself: China’s Spectacular-Oneiric Society

An Intervention from a Critical Chinese Studies Perspective

Gregory Lee

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Since the ’90s, China’s economic power has grown massively, and with it the authorities’ desire to control and craft its global image. Yet, despite policed Internet and surveillance of its citizens, contestation of the authorities’ control has come from social, ecological and cultural activists. Since the start of the century, China has staged the Olympics, had a Chinese woman win the Miss World competition, and claims to wage a ‘war on terror’. A spectacle of a peaceful, harmonious and ‘normal’ country – a ‘China dream’ – is projected. This article seeks to apprehend the reality behind the dream and to show how China's current condition is the result of a historical domination by, but also voluntary engagement with, the ‘West’.

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Dec. 19, 2017

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Feb. 1, 2017

Submitted

Jan. 23, 2017

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978-88-6969-210-9

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978-88-6969-190-4

Keywords: Technology • Modernity • Spectacular society • Postcolonial • Globalization • Science • China

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