Perhaps the exegetic habitus of Chinese Communism owes its persistence to the millennia-long bonding of Chinese raison d' etat with Confucian concerns regarding the attunement of words and deeds, a problem that generated technologies of zhengming (retification of names), which Hall and Ames have recently analyzed as a ritual organisation of the relation between the self and the other. ......
In this book I will try to underline the relation between the ecegetical operations on Norman Bethune's memorial with this long and contested philosophical legacy. My thesis is that the memorial's ambivalent key-phrase, the spirit of selflessness, played a crucial role in defining the contours of the New Man in China. And yet, it remains unrecognised as such in the long bibliography on Maoism, which usually bypasses it as simply typical or doctrinaire. ......引自 Introduction In my examination of how the exegesis of Dr Bethune's spirit of selflessness functioned as a stage for the struggle between the 'cultivation of the self' and the 'abolition of the self', as technologies of the self promoted by two distinct modes of Chinese socialist governmentality, I shall take as my historical-ethnographic ground the way in which this contention was acted out within the context of the medical and public health apparatus of the People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1969.引自 Introduction
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