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.
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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
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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).
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