| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 236 pages) |
| Series |
Culture, Mind and Society |
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Culture, mind, and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche; Andrew B. Kipnis -- PART I: CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND SENSES OF SELF -- 1. Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China; Ling-Yun Tang -- 2. "Selling Out" Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China; Emily Wilcox -- 3. The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation; Wanning Sun -- PART II: FEMALE GENDER AND THE RELATIONAL PSYCHE -- 4. Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers' Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters Future Independence and Excellence; Vanessa L. Fong, Cong Zhang, Sung won Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Zuhong Lu and Huihua Deng -- 5. The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China; Harriet Evans -- 6. Modernization and Women's Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim; Hyeon Jung Lee -- PART III: GOVERNING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA -- 7. Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing; Delia Lin -- 8. Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs; Andrew B. Kipnis -- 9. Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China; Zhiying Ma |
| Summary |
Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions experienced by artists, dancers, and poets; by mothers and daughters; by school children and migrant workers; the mentally ill, and others. As a whole, the book provides a disturbing but hopeful portrait of Chinese society, an opportunity to rethink the significance of the concept of modernity, and a vivid reminder of the enmeshment of individual psyches in their wider social and cultural environments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnopsychology -- China
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Chinese -- Psychology
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Social change -- China
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography -- China.
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The self, ego, identity, personality -- China.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology.
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Society.
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Chinese -- Psychology
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Ethnopsychology
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Social change
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kipnis, Andrew B.
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| LC no. |
2012022506 |
| ISBN |
9781137268969 |
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1137268964 |
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9781349443697 |
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1349443697 |
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