Marketplace.
Dreadful Desires
£22.71
£22.71/each
Sold and sent by Speedyhen
Delivered by post or courier
Delivery
- FREE standard courier delivery by Mon 11 Aug
Returns
Returns available within 30 days.
Dreadful Desires
£22.71
£22.71/each
Description
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 If You Are the One, and the cult of patriarchal personality around Xi Jinping—are explicitly based in oppressive systems of gender, class, and sexuality. Zhang contends that such desires connect love to economic survival and gender normativity in ways that underwrite Chinese neoliberalism at the expense of individual flourishing. By outlining how state-framed forms of love create desires that cannot be fulfilled, Zhang places China at the forefront of using affective attachments to nation, leader, and family in the global shifts toward exploitation and authoritarianism.
Sold by Speedyhen (Speedy Hen LTD)
| Author | Charlie Yi Zhang |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 9781478017998 |
| Item Height | 2.9 |
| Item Length | 15.7 |
| Item Width | 22.7 |
| Publisher | Combined Academic Pub Pb |
Delivery
- FREE standard courier delivery by Mon 11 Aug
Returns
Not happy with a Marketplace item? You can request a return and refund online up to 30 days after the delivery date. You'll need to return the item to the Marketplace seller.Our returns policy
Explore more
About Marketplace
We're giving you more choice than ever before. Shop more products from more brands across homewares, beauty, electricals and much more.
Sold and sent by trusted sellers right to your door.
No reviews yet
Help other customers like you
Reviews are submitted by our customers directly through our website. We also share reviews from other retailers' websites to help you make an informed decision.
Write a review