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by Arthur Kleinman (Author), Yunxiang Yan (Author), & 3 more Format: Kindle Edition
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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,
Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.
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"Essential. . . . This is one of the most important books on China to be published in recent years."--Susan D. Blum, The University of Notre Dame "The China Journal" (2/12/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Fascinating. . . . Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual."--Rui Zheng "British Journal Of Psychiatry" (10/18/2012 12:00:00 AM)
"This book should be highly praised. . . . Good reading for anyone interested in Sinology, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology and mental health."--Diana Soeiro "Metapsychology Online Review" (4/30/2012 12:00:00 AM)
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"Essential. . . . This is one of the most important books on China to be published in recent years."--Susan D. Blum, The University of Notre Dame "The China Journal" (2/12/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Fascinating. . . . Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual."--Rui Zheng "British Journal Of Psychiatry" (10/18/2012 12:00:00 AM)
"This book should be highly praised. . . . Good reading for anyone interested in Sinology, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology and mental health."--Diana Soeiro "Metapsychology Online Review" (4/30/2012 12:00:00 AM)
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"How do Chinese people formerly embedded in family and village justify their individualistic pursuits in a society undergoing vast changes? Here a uniquely trained senior psychiatrist/anthropologist and six Chinese with Ph Ds in anthropology probe the inner lives of Chinese people." --Ezra F. Vogel, author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
"Based on solid, in-depth ethnographic research, Deep China seeks to understand how emotional and moral lives of Chinese people have been affected by drastic changes that have taken place over the past several decades. The authors refuse to stay on the surface in their inquiry, and try to delve deeper into the intimate and sometimes hidden spheres of personal life, emotion, and social practice. A wonderful collection of engaging and timely studies!" - Li Zhang, author of In Search of Paradise: Middle Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
"Deep China provides an indispensable antidote to the copious body of politically and economically oriented literature that dominates current writing about the Chinese super-power. This scholarly collection of ethnographic essays depicts the way in which Chinese are confronting and creating an entirely new moral landscape, one strikingly discordant with that of the recent past. Profound tensions between individual aspirations and claims made by families and social and political collectivities are laid bare through insightful discussion of suicide, depression, changing sexual mores, and much more." --Margaret Lock, author of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
"Eschewing the broad brush and facile generalizations that make for instant China experts, Deep China examines the struggles, accommodations, and embodied sufferings and pleasures of individual Chinese people at an unprecedented moment in their moral history. True to its title, it adds dimensions to its subject." --Haun Saussy, author of Great Walls of Discourse
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ASIN : B005W2QJD8
Publisher : University of California Press
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Publication date : 26 September 2011
Print length : 320 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0520950511
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: 101 in Health Policy (Books)1,757 in Cultural Anthropology (Books)
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Porter Woodward
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing read - holds up well to my personal experiences.Reviewed in the United States on 19 August 2015
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A very interesting look at the shifts and changes in where morals come from post-Mao, post-cultural revolution in a society which pushed out religion to replace it with a religion of the "state" (cult of personality) - only to have that displaced with what exactly?
Nature abhors a vacuum - and apparently so do societies. Here you have a nice exploration of the cobbled together moral landscape - with traditions both old and new being synthesized into a (not necessarily cohesive) whole. The authors cover a lot of different aspects of the inner conflicts people must have experienced, and are experiencing even now. This won't necessarily help you understand individuals per se, but it should give you some appreciation for what many people may have gone through as a whole.
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4.0 out of 5 stars deep researchReviewed in Singapore on 19 October 2023
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4.0 out of 5 stars O que esperavaReviewed in Spain on 13 October 2020
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