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Artificial light, Beijing

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dc.contributor.authorCliff, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-19T01:08:02Z
dc.date.available2014-05-19T01:08:02Z
dc.date.issued2014-02-18
dc.date.updated2020-11-08T07:23:34Z
dc.description.abstractPrologue: A Sort of Darkness There’s a man who sits selling spicy tofu and vegetables on skewers in a not-yet redeveloped area, no more than thirty30 metres wide, between Beijing University and the Ffourth Rring road. Beyond the twelve12 or fourteen14 lines of traffic to his south is the hyper-modernity of Zhongguancun, but he finds his place in this liminal strip: anti-aspiration between aspirational heights. He is no longer young, but not- yet middle aged. He stays in that one spot for twelve12 hours a day, midday to midnight, every day. When he is not actively serving a customer, he just sits there, almost motionless and completely expressionless; he doesn’t look happy or sad, and my chest tightens each time I walk past.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/11684
dc.publisherAustralian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/fl120100155
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/dp140101289
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dc.sourceThe China Story
dc.source.urihttps://www.thechinastory.org/2014/02/artificial-light-beijing/en_AU
dc.subjectsocial change
dc.subjectinequality
dc.subjectcapitalism
dc.subjectexistentialism
dc.subjectphoto essay
dc.titleArtificial light, Beijing
dc.typeJournal article
local.contributor.affiliationCliff, Thomas, The Australian National University
local.contributor.authoruidu2538181en_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
local.identifier.absseo940203 - Political Systems
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5025248xPUB75
local.publisher.urlwww.TheChinaStory.org.en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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