Title: The mirage of China
Description: "Today'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 priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be reborn and relived in the People's Republic -- as essential conditions for the possiblity 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" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Globalization, Economic conditions, Social change, Capitalism, China, economic conditions, Social aspects, Economic history, Economic aspects
Places: China
Time periods: 2000-