Rethinking the “Human”: Pond Society, Automation Fever, and the Disappearance of the Labouring Body

Volume 18, Number 5, September/October 2019
by Linda Huang


Article Description

Linda Huang discusses how, in the new China, the representation of the body has shifted from that of a heroic labouring physical body to one that is idealized in a different way through its synchronicity with automation, proposing this as a symptom of progress in modern mainland China.


Related Keywords

Linda Huang, the New Enlightenment Movement, Pond Society, Automation Fever, politics of labour, body, reengineering of socialist bodies