Hygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China
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ethnographic research
everyday hygiene
public health anthropology
qualitative study of Chinese villages
rural
rural health policy
rural-urban inequality
social welfare intervention
uncanny modernization
urban divide
village modernisation
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- ISBN 9781041181163
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems 'socialist new villages'. Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China's persistent rural-urban divide and help contribute to more effective welfare intervention to improve health and hygienic conditions of village life.
Dr. Lili Lai, Institute of Medical Humanities, guest editor of a special issue entitled The Local Intimacies of China's Rural-Urban Divide of Positions Volume 22, Issue 3, 2014, Duke University Press.
