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Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics
Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics develops the Foucauldian concept of productive power through examining the ways in which the Chinese government tried to mobilize the population to embrace its Olympic project through deploying various sets of strategies and tactics. It argues that the multifaceted strategies, tactics, and discourses deployed by the Chinese authorities sustain an order of things and values in such a way that drive individuals to commit themselves actively to the goals of the party-state.
The book examines how these processes of subjectification are achieved by zooming in on five specific groups of the population: athletes, young Olympic volunteers, taxi drivers, Chinese citizens targeted by place-making projects, and the Hong Kong population. In doing so it probes critically into the role of individuals and how they take on the governmental ideas to become responsible autonomous subjects.
“Drawing on Foucault’s theories, Gladys Pak Lei Chong offers here an informed discussion of the modern Chinese state’s techniques of governmentality, in particular in the production of patriotic subjects. The ramifications of her thoughtful analysis go far beyond the Beijing Olympics.” – Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
“This is an eminently readable book full of insights into the intricate ways in which people in China both subject to, and sometimes resist, the governmental calls on them to be ideal national subjects. Applying a Foucauldian perspective on contemporary Chinese reality, Gladys Chong gives us an in-depth and multifaceted look – through the case study of the staging of the Beijing Olympics - into the complex relationship between the state and its subject citizens in the moulding of Chineseness and what it means to be Chinese today.” – Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 16, 2017
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