Deep China : The Moral Life of the Person.
Title:
Deep China : The Moral Life of the Person.
Author:
Kleinman, Arthur.
ISBN:
9780520950511
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Remaking the Moral Person in a New China -- 1. The Changing Moral Landscape -- 2. From Commodity of Death to Gift of Life -- 3. China's Sexual Revolution -- 4. Place Attachment, Communal Memory, and the Moral Underpinnings of Gentrification in Postreform Shanghai -- 5. Depression: Coming of Age in China -- 6. Suicide, a Modern Problem in China -- 7. Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and China's Nonpersons -- 8. Quests for Meaning -- Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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