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Title Deep China : the moral life of the person : what anthropology and psychiatry tell us about China today / Arthur Kleinman [and others]
Published Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
Contents Introduction : Remaking the moral person in a new China -- The changing moral landscape / Yunxiang Yan -- From commodity of death to gift of life / Jing Jun -- China's sexual revolution / Everett Yuehong Zhang -- Place attachment, communal memory, and the moral underpinnings of gentrification in postreform Shanghai / Pan Tianshu -- Depression : coming of age in China / Sing Lee -- Suicide, a modern problem in China / Wu Fei -- Stigma : HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and China's nonpersons / Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman -- Quests for meaning / Arthur Kleinman
Summary "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, the contributors--Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua--explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT China Zusammenstellung gnd
Subject Medical anthropology -- China
Cultural psychiatry -- China
Identity (Psychology) -- China
Group identity.
Manners and customs.
Social history.
Social Identification
Ethnopsychology -- methods
Morals
Cultural Characteristics
Social Conditions
group identity.
social history.
customs (social concepts)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
Social history
Group identity
Cultural psychiatry
Identity (Psychology)
Manners and customs
Medical anthropology
Moral conditions
Social conditions
Ethnologie
Persönlichkeitspsychologie
Soziale Situation.
Identität.
Gruppenidentität.
Kulturpsychologie.
Ethnomedizin.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178
China -- Moral conditions
China -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024186
China https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002681
Subject China
China.
Form Electronic book
Author Kleinman, Arthur.
ISBN 9780520950511
0520950518