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Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics

by Gladys Pak Lei Chong
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781783489886
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: GBP 49.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Movements / Critical Theory

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.

Pak Lei Chong, Gladys: - Gladys Pak Lei Chong is Assistant Professor of Liberal and Cultural Studies at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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