{"product_id":"the-mirage-of-china-1764946823658","title":"The Mirage of China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\tToday’s world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China’s immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a \u003ci\u003epriori\u003c\/i\u003e categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People’s Republic - as essential conditions for the possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\tAs the author argues, an epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the present age of the People’s Republic, which appears on the global stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at the present time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xin Lu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51394990178596,"sku":"9780857456113","price":27.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_a64e34bd-94cf-4e04-a322-4c6358f03736.jpg?v=1764947628","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/the-mirage-of-china-1764946823658","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}