Deep China
Subtitle: the moral life of the person : what anthropology and psychiatry tell us about China today
By: Arthur Kleinman ... [et al.].
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780520269446; 9780520269453
Subjects: Ethnopsychology; Social life and customs; Methods; Morals; Social Identification; Social conditions; Group identity; Cultural Characteristics; Social Conditions; Moral conditions; Identity (Psychology); Cultural psychiatry; Medical anthropology
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Remaking the moral person in a new China; title: The changing moral landscape / Yunxiang Yan; title: From commodity of death to gift of life / Jing Jun; title: China's sexual revolution / Everett Yuehong Zhang; title: Place attachment, communal memory, and the moral underpinnings of gentrification in postreform Shanghai / Pan Tianshu; title: Depression : coming of age in China / Sing Lee; title: Suicide, a modern problem in China / Wu Fei; title: Stigma : HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and China's nonpersons / Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman; title: Quests for meaning / Arthur Kleinman.