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Incorporating Colonial Industry Incorporating Colonial Industry
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Encounters with a Scared LandscapeClose Encounters with a Scared LandscapeClose
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Seeking Truths by Embodying Renzhen Seeking Truths by Embodying Renzhen
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The Double Labors of Renzhen The Double Labors of Renzhen
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Renzhen and Anxious States Renzhen and Anxious States
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Five Industrious Anxiety: Labor and Landscapes of Modernity in Dalian
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Published:December 2016
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Chapter 5 examines the latent anxiety about modernity inherent in excess produced by the political economy of redemption. Looking at Dalian’s postgenerations, it examines the double usage of the concept of renzhen (conscientiousness/conscience) to describe both an excessively conscientious work ethic and a lack of conscience regarding Japanese apologies for past violence, capturing the tension between Japan as model of emulation and object of hostility. It ethnographically explores young middle class Dalianites’ encounters with colonial inheritance at two colonial industrial sites: Onoda Cement plant and former Fukushō Chinese Labor Company, active in Japanese use of wartime forced labor. It follows the ghostly echoes of forced labor during a visit to Dalian by memory activist Wang Xuan as part of her investigation of the Imperial Japanese Army’s wartime biological human experiments. The double usage of renzhen, elicited through these encounters, illuminates what lies behind the rhetoric behind “not enough apology” and repeated surges of anti-Japanese sentiment. Conscientious work ethic, it suggests, does not always translate into good conscience at the collective level, but potentially contributes to state violence, implying that “enough apology” in good conscience from Japanese could never satisfy anxiety generated by Japan’s violence in name of the modern state.
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