Anxious China
Synopsis
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.
- Copyright:
- 2020 Li Zhang
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520975392
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2020-08-04T07:52:05Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.