Social Suffering and Political Confession
Subtitle: Suku in Modern China
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789814407298
Subjects: Suffering; China, history, 20th century; China, social conditions
Description: "The ... volume ... examines one significant political phenomenon--Suku in revolutionary China through a matrix of western social theory: Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Suku is the practice of confessing individual suffering in a political context and in a collective public forum. By interpreting Suku from the joint perspectives of political identity and subjective psychological identity, the book presents a new paradigm for discussing social suffering and collective confession in a context of revolutionary change in China's modern history."--Page 4 of cover.