Breathing Spaces
Subtitle: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: July 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780231128049
Subjects: Fitness & diet; Oriental martial arts; Social Science; Consumer Health; Sociology; China; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Exercise; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Exercise therapy; Political aspects; Psychiatry; Qi gong; Social aspects
First sentence: A DEEP BREATH of fresh air was always on my mind when I began field research on psychiatric practices and mental health care in Beijing during the winter of 1990.