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Deep China : the moral life of the person : what anthropology and psychiatry tell us about China today / Arthur Kleinman [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520950511
  • 0520950518
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deep China.DDC classification:
  • 306/.0951 23
LOC classification:
  • GN296.5.C6 D44 2011eb
NLM classification:
  • 2011 K-276
  • GN 296.5.C6
Other classification:
  • LC 56440
  • LC 58440
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Remaking the moral person in a new China -- The changing moral landscape / Yunxiang Yan -- From commodity of death to gift of life / Jing Jun -- China's sexual revolution / Everett Yuehong Zhang -- Place attachment, communal memory, and the moral underpinnings of gentrification in postreform Shanghai / Pan Tianshu -- Depression : coming of age in China / Sing Lee -- Suicide, a modern problem in China / Wu Fei -- Stigma : HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and China's nonpersons / Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman -- Quests for meaning / Arthur Kleinman.
Summary: "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, the contributors--Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua--explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life."--Page 4 of cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : Remaking the moral person in a new China -- The changing moral landscape / Yunxiang Yan -- From commodity of death to gift of life / Jing Jun -- China's sexual revolution / Everett Yuehong Zhang -- Place attachment, communal memory, and the moral underpinnings of gentrification in postreform Shanghai / Pan Tianshu -- Depression : coming of age in China / Sing Lee -- Suicide, a modern problem in China / Wu Fei -- Stigma : HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and China's nonpersons / Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman -- Quests for meaning / Arthur Kleinman.

"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, the contributors--Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua--explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life."--Page 4 of cover

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