Emptiness and Fullness

Emptiness and FullnessAs critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China: In the ostensibly meritocratic exam system and the

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This book challenges us to rethink policy and practice

Jiso Yoon shows the relevance of the framework in explaining advocacy and policymaking today with empirical evidence drawn from the contemporary policy process in South Korea

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Fairness and Care and their supporting text

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