National Past-times

Author	: Ann Anagnost
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Total Pages	: 244
Release	: 1997
ISBN-10	: 0822319691
ISBN-13	: 9780822319696
Rating	: 4/5 (91 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis National Past-times by : Ann Anagnost

Download or read book National Past-times written by Ann Anagnost and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the body of the nation. Using interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents and propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes discontinuities in the nation's self-description--as though redefined at critical junctures in recent history. Photos.

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