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

"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"

• 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

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

"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"

• 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

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

"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"

• 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