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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780520344181
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-520-34418-1
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.07.2020
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
- Produktform: Gebunden, Cloth Over Boards
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Seiten: 224
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt