Anxious ChinaAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 4 August 2020
Description
The breathless pace of Chinaâ?Ts economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and peopleâ?Ts 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 â?oinner revolutionâ?? is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxietyâ?"broadly construed in both medical and social termsâ?"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.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
09 Nov 2024
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
€10.52
by
Paperback
05 Apr 2024
Public administration
€163.79
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
20 Feb 2024
Political economy
€163.79
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
08 Nov 2023
Mechanical engineering and materials
€146.25
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews