| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Language -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Understanding Disability and Citizenship in China -- Imagining Disability in and through Chinese Culture -- Unearthing the Foundations of Disability in China -- Is There Such a Thing as a 'Good' Disabled Citizen? -- Towards an Understanding of Para-citizenship -- What Is Here, What Is Not, and What Might Be in the Future -- 1 Where Did All the Disabled People Go?: Cultural Invisibility Before 1976 |
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Picture-Perfect Heroes -- Pavel Korchagin's 'Hybrid Form' -- Hail the Wounded Heroes -- We Are 'Disabled but Not Useless' -- 'You Can't Make a Deaf-Mute Talk Unless You Make an Iron Tree Bloom' -- Not Everyone Can Be a Model Citizen -- 2 Backstage to Centre Stage: New Heroes in the Age of Reform -- Making a New Model Hero -- Crafting a Narrative of 'Overcoming' -- Towards a 'New View' of Disability -- An Enduring Role Model? -- Be a Normal, Exceptional, Disabled Person -- 3 Entertainment or Education?: Disability and the Cinematic Imagination -- Bringing Disability Back into View |
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Promote Disability to Create a More 'Civilised' Society -- New Generations of Director, New Visions of Disability -- Save the Children -- 4 A Narrative Prosthesis?: Disability and the Literary Imagination -- A Dilapidated and Grotesque Haven -- Throwing Light on a Corner in the Shade -- The Timeless Quest for Able-bodiedness -- Dystopias and Utopias of Disability -- Illegitimate Heroes and Undesirable Denizens -- 5 Blind, but Not in the Dark: Realism Sheds New Light on Visual Impairment -- 'Blind Spots' and Stereotypes -- Definitions and Clichés -- Doctor Wang -- Sha Fuming -- Du Hong |
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Shedding Light on the 'World of Darkness' -- 6 Private Lives for Public Consumption: Writing Our Disabled Life Stories -- The Complex Case of Narrating Disability -- Inspiring Others to Help Themselves -- Yin Shujun and Her Troublesome Body -- Yin Shujun Pays Back Her 'Debts' -- Angels with Broken Wings -- Conclusion: The Perils and Possibilities of Para-citizenship -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide range of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and life writing, media and state documents, it reveals the standards against which disabled people have been held as the Chinese state has grappled with expectations of the 'ideal' Chinese citizen. It demonstrates how culture offers a potent site where the norms of disabled citizenship are negotiated, a dynamic space where collective social, political and cultural understandings of what it means to be disabled are both imbued and contested. The book proposes an exciting new theoretical framework - 'para-citizenship'. A far more dynamic relationship of identity and belonging than previously imagined, this new reading synthesises the often troubling contradictions of citizenship for disabled people to better capture the ways in which they can be isolated and marginalised, viewed as different and not 'normal', and considered ancillary to the 'mainstream', yet simultaneously be subject to compelling and affective discourses of equality and inclusion"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020) |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- China
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People with disabilities -- China -- Social conditions
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People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- China
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Manners and customs
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People with disabilities
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People with disabilities -- Civil rights
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social life and customs -- History
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020012512 |
| ISBN |
9781316339879 |
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1316339874 |
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9781108916769 |
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1108916767 |
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