Deep China - The Moral Life of the Person - What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us About China Today

1. Auflage, What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us about China Today 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-26944-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kleinman, Arthur

Yan, Yunxiang

Jun, Jing

Lee, Sing

Zhang, Everett

Tianshu, Pan

Fei, Wu

Guo, Jinhua

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Remaking the Moral Person in a New China

1. The Changing Moral Landscape

Yunxiang Yan
2. From Commodity of Death to Gift of Life

Jing Jun
3. China’s Sexual Revolution

Everett Yuehong Zhang
4. Place Attachment, Communal Memory, and the Moral Underpinnings of Gentrification
in Postreform Shanghai

Pan Tianshu
5. Depression: Coming of Age in China

Sing Lee
6. Suicide, a Modern Problem in China

Wu Fei
7. Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and China’s Nonpersons

Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman
8. Quests for Meaning

Arthur Kleinman

Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University; Yunxiang Yan is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jing Jun is a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing); Sing Lee is a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong; Everett Zhang is a Professor at Princeton University; Pan Tianshu is a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai); Wu Fei and Guo Jinhua are Professors at Peking University (Beijing).