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Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
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ISBN10: 0520344189
ISBN13: 9780520344181
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Aug 4 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780520344181
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Aug 4 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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