Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China Zhang Charlie Yi
Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China Zhang Charlie Yi In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the…
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Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China Zhang Charlie Yi
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. These desires--as circulated in the performance in the nationalistic ceremony, the wildly popular reality television dating show If You Are the One, same-sex romantic fanfiction, and the cult of patriarchal personality around Xi Jinping--are explicitly based in oppressive systems of gender, class, and sexuality. 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.
By outlining how state-framed Zhang contends that such desires connect love to economic survival and gender normativity in ways that underwrite Chinese neoliberalism at the expense of individual flourishing.
The Book of Desires