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  • CQY volume 219 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 219 / September 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 October 2014, pp. b1-b8
    Print publication:
    September 2014
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  • Biopolitics, Occupational Health and State Power: The Marginalization of Sick Workers in China

  • Wing-Chung Ho
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 219 / September 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 October 2014, pp. 808-826
    Print publication:
    September 2014

  • This article endeavours to address the experience of Chinese workers with occupational disease as an instantiation of Agamben's notion of homo sacer – the ultimate biopolitical subject whose life is located outside the “normal” political, economic and cultural practices and, hence, is rendered largely silent and unintelligible in the public realm. It argues that the victimization of the occupationally sick worker has become almost a blind spot at the centre of governmentality insofar as the specific set of social regulations and power relations has created a “double ambivalence” among the victims who are constantly and disturbingly caught in between the public and private, the productive and unproductive, and the culturally normative and the culturally deviant. Such experiences of marginality contribute to the understanding of the biopolitical nature of contemporary Chinese state power, which adopts extensive “stability maintenance” (weiwen) measures to reduce resisters to a state of “bare life” susceptible to the rule of exception.

  • The Chinese Revolution and “Liberation”: Whose Tragedy?

  • Felix Wemheuer
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 219 / September 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 October 2014, pp. 849-863
    Print publication:
    September 2014

  • Once upon a time in China, Ella Fitzgerald sang in Shanghai's jazz clubs; bright neon lights with English advertisements shone in the dark; and, even in provincial Kunming, people saw 166 shows of the Hollywood movie I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now. This was before 1949, when the communist peasants' army entered the cities and turned China in the first decade of Maoist rule into “one of the worst tyrannies in the history of the twentieth century, sending to an early grave at least 5 million civilians and bringing misery to countless more” (p. xiii). This tyranny is the focus of Frank Dikötter's The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–57.

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