Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China

by Charlie Yi Zhang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017996
• ISBN13: 9781478017998
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"