Anxious China :Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
Anxious China :Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
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Published:
31 July, 2020
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The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780520344198 |
| ISBN10 | 0520344197 |
| Number Of Pages | 224 |
| Item Weight | 318 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 15 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | University of California Press |
| Format | paperback |
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"While grounded in the ethnographic specificities of middle-class Chinese urbanites, Anxious China offers powerful insights to scholars working on similar questions in diverse regions of the world." * Somatosphere *
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Author's Bio
Li Zhang is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of two award-winning books, Strangers in the City and In Search of Paradise.