TY - JOUR
AU - Grillot, Caroline
AB -  Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture L. Rofel . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2007 . 251 pp., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978‐0‐8223‐3935‐9. US$79.95 (Hb .), ISBN 978‐0822339472 . US$22.95 (Pb .) Desiring China aims to be both a description of the public expression of a Chinese state that desires to gain a legitimate position on the global stage, and a contribution to the understanding of its citizens who yearn to recover a ‘human nature’ that could put them on the path of cosmopolitanism. Herein lies the main challenge of Rofel’s book: how to produce an analysis of the varied and specific aspects of what she calls ‘public culture’ that can sharpen our insight into a society that increasingly reveals unexpected cultural features. Rofel describes how the production of desire lies at the heart of the globalising process over the course of six essays that represent most of her work on China during the last two decades. In the first essay called ‘Yearnings’, a very popular television drama that was broadcast in China in the early 1990s is read as ‘a site for divergent discourses of class, gender and nation‐ness’ (p. 61) 
TI - Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
JF - The Australian Journal of Anthropology
DO - 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2010.00074.x
DA - 2010-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/desiring-china-experiments-in-neoliberalism-sexuality-and-public-xql69o1w45
SP - 144
EP - 146
VL - 21
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -