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The World of Extreme Happiness
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When Sunny is born in rural China, her parents leave her in a slop bucket to die because she's a girl. She survives, and at 14 leaves for the city, where she works a low-paying factory job and attends self-help classes to improve her chances at securing a coveted office position. When Sunny's attempts to pull herself out of poverty lead to dire consequences for a fellow worker, she is forced to question the system she's spent her life trying to master – and stand up against the powers that be. Savage, tragic and desperately funny, The World of Extreme Happiness is a stirring examination of a country in the midst of rapid change, and individuals struggling to shape their own destinies.
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and
thus
their
constituent
power.
Against
capitalism’s
false
assurances
of
individual
enrichment,
and
against
the
authoritarianism
of
the
Chinese
central
government,
Pete
allows
Sunny
(and
by
extension,
the
audience)
to
imagine
a
“perfect
society”
built
on
the
empowerment
of
the
masses,
true
democracy,
liberty,
and
the
promise
of
the
collective
struggle
for
justice.
By
allowing
us
to
imagine
this
promise,
we
are
assured
that
such
a
world
is
possible.
In
what
he
does
next,
Pete
reminds
us
of
the
painful
gap
that
we
must
bridge
between
that
world
and
this
one.
Joshua
Takano
Chambers-Letson
Northwestern
University
1.
For
more,
see:
Xudong
Zhang,
ed.,
Whither
China:
Intellectual
Politics
in
Contemporary
China
(Durham,
NC:
Duke
University
Press,
2001).
2.
Xudong
Zhang,
“The
Making
of
the
Post-Tiananmen
Intellectual
Field:
A
Critical
Overview,”
in
Whither
China:
Intellectual
Politics
in
Contemporary
China
,
ed.
Xudong
Zhang
(Durham,
NC:
Duke
University
Press,
2001),
7.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Fifth
National
People’s
Congress,
“Regulations
on
Special
Economic
Zones
in
Guangdong
Province.”
Available
at:
www.novexcn.com/
guangdong_regs_on_sez.html,
accessed
September
7,
2013.
5.
Aihwa
Ong,
Neoliberalism
as
Exception:
Mutations
in
Citizenship
and
Sovereignty
(Durham,
NC:
Duke
University
Press,
2006),
106.
6.
Aihwa
Ong,
Flexible
Citizenship:
The
Cultural
Logics
of
Transnationality
(Durham,
NC:
Duke
University
Press,
1999),
224.
Afterword
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page
intentionally
left
blank
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Characters
- Act One
- Act Two
- Background
- Afterword