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Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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Are You Trying to Make Sense of the World?

One of the reasons is that we citizens, especially young people, lost the capacity to look at social issues in a very concrete way. I think it's turned out to be dangerous because if you don't know how you are related to your surroundings then you will become ruthless and socially without anchor. That is not only a cognitive question, it is really also a matter of attitude towards life," he says.

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