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Anxious China
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china
contemporary chinese society
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economic reform
economics
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ethnography
family dynamics
happiness
inner landscape
inner revolution
institutional rationality
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market driven competition
mental disorders
mental distress
mental health
middle class urbanites
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political authority
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psyche
psychological counseling
psychotherapeutic culture
satir model
self transformation
selfhood
social changes
sociality
socioeconomic structures
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therapeutic governing
therapeutic relationships
therapeutic self
Product details
- ISBN 9780520344198
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
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