Bodies of Difference

Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, Matthew Kohrman details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and identities across the Chinese landscape during the final decades of the twentieth century. He looks closely at the creation of the China Disabled Persons' Federation and the lives of numerous individuals, among them Deng Pufang, son of China's Communist leader Deng Xiaoping.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-05-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520226456

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Matthew Kohrman is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.

Recensioner i media

"Bodies of Difference is a breath of fresh air in this tremendously important arena of medical anthropology. Kohrman writes very clearly and with grace, and the scholarship is evident on every page." - Linda S. Mitteness, University of California, San Francisco "Korhman reveals to us with a keen ethnographic eye and a clear prose style the emergent world of disabilities in China. His analysis of this biobureaucracy and of the stakes of bodies and lives is illuminating." - Paul Rabinow, author of Anthropos Today"

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Biomythography in the Making 2. Why Ma Zhun Doesn't Count 3. Building a Corporate Body 4. Speeding Up Life in Beijing 5. Troubled Sociality: The Federation-Canji Relationship in Wenchang County 6. Dis/ablement and Marriage: Ridiculed Bachelors, Ambivalent Grooms Epilogue Notes Appendixes References Index