Yunxiang Yan & Jing Jun 
Deep China [EPUB ebook] 
The Moral Life of the Person

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, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.

Table des matières

Preface 

Introduction: Remaking the Moral Person in a New China 


1. The Changing Moral Landscape 

Yunxiang Yan

2. From Commodity of Death to Gift of Life 

Jing Jun

3. China’s Sexual Revolution 

Everett Yuehong Zhang

4. Place Attachment, Communal Memory, and the Moral Underpinnings of Gentrification

in Postreform Shanghai 

Pan Tianshu

5. Depression: Coming of Age in China 

Sing Lee

6. Suicide, a Modern Problem in China 

Wu Fei

7. Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and China’s Nonpersons 

Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman

8. Quests for Meaning 

Arthur Kleinman


Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names 

Notes on Contributors 

Index 

A propos de l’auteur

Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University; Yunxiang Yan is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jing Jun is a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing); Sing Lee is a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong; Everett Zhang is a Professor at Princeton University; Pan Tianshu is a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai); Wu Fei and Guo Jinhua are Professors at Peking University (Beijing).