Ramsay Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction

Beyond the Opium Dens
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-36852-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 143 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

Addiction to an ever-increasing range of illicit drugs is a pressing social concern across greater China, where, at present, there likely are several million drug addicts. This book systematically evaluates how drug addiction is represented and constructed in a series of contemporary life stories and filmic stories from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. These stories recount experiences leading up to drug addiction and experiences during drug addiction, as well as experiences during drug rehabilitation and recovery. Through analysis of these contemporary life stories and filmic stories, Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction presents a comprehensive picture of how Chinese people from both inside the experience of drug addiction and outside of it make sense of a social practice that is deemed to be highly transgressive in Chinese culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramsay, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Gendered Exemplars: Life Stories of Drug Addiction and Recovery 3 Institutional Schema: Life Stories of Drug Addiction and Rehabilitation 4 Marginalisation and Palliation: Filmic Stories of Drug Addiction, Rehabilitation and Recovery 5 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Guy Ramsay is Senior Lecuturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia. His current research interests include discourse analysis and narrative analysis in mental illness and related disorders in China and the Chinese diaspora and his publications include Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China (Routledge, 2013) and Shaping Minds: A Discourse Analysis of Chinese-Language Community Mental Health Literature (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008).