Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person

by Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520269446
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/26/2011
Edition description:	First Edition, What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us about China Today
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University; Yunxiang Yan is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jing Jun is a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing); Sing Lee is a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong; Everett Zhang is a Professor at Princeton University; Pan Tianshu is a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai); Wu Fei and Guo Jinhua are Professors at Peking University (Beijing).

Table of Contents

Preface 
Introduction: Remaking the Moral Person in a New China 

1. The Changing Moral Landscape 
Yunxiang Yan
2. From Commodity of Death to Gift of Life 
Jing Jun
3. China’s Sexual Revolution 
Everett Yuehong Zhang
4. Place Attachment, Communal Memory, and the Moral Underpinnings of Gentrification
in Postreform Shanghai 
Pan Tianshu
5. Depression: Coming of Age in China 
Sing Lee
6. Suicide, a Modern Problem in China 
Wu Fei
7. Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and China’s Nonpersons 
Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman
8. Quests for Meaning 
Arthur Kleinman

Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names 
Notes on Contributors 
Index 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This book should be highly praised. . . . Good reading for anyone interested in Sinology, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology and mental health."—Metapsychology Online Review

"Fascinating. . . . Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual."—British Journal of Psychiatry

Editorial Reviews

Fascinating. . . . Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual.

British Journal Of Psychiatry - Rui Zheng

Essential. . . . This is one of the most important books on China to be published in recent years.

The China Journal - Susan D. Blum

"Essential. . . . This is one of the most important books on China to be published in recent years."--The China Journal

"This book should be highly praised. . . . Good reading for anyone interested in Sinology, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology and mental health."--Metapsychology Online Review

"Fascinating. . . . Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual."--British Journal of Psychiatry

"Fascinating. . . . Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual."--British Journal of Psychiatry

From the Publisher

This book should be highly praised. . . . Good reading for anyone interested in Sinology, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology and mental health.

Metapsychology Online Review - Diana Soeiro