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Book SynopsisThis edited volume includes studies of discourses about bodily and psychiatric illness in modern China, bringing together scholarships that reconfigure the fields of history, literature, film, psychology, anthropology, and gender studies by tracing the pathological path of China through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into the new millennium.
Trade Review"a fascinating examination of the way in which discourses of disease have developed in China from the late nineteenth century on. The contributors are a mix of well-established names and newer scholars from institutions in the US, Hong Kong and Australia, and from several disciplines—predominantly Chinese Studies-related, but also comparative literature and education—which allows for a range of approaches and perspectives." Sarah Dauncey, University of Nottingham, Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 7 July 2017
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Disease and Discourse Howard Y. F. Choy Part I Hygiene and Psychosis: From Routine to Poetry 1. James Henderson’s Shanghai Hygiene and the British Constitution in Early Modern China Stephanie Villalta Puig 2. Curing Unhappiness in Revolutionary China: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism Wendy Larson 3. Metaphors unto Themselves: Mental Illness Poetics and Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Poetry Birgit Linder Part II Drugs and Cancers: From Nation to Fiction 4. Unmaking of Nationalism: Drug Addiction and Its Literary Imagination in Bi Shumin’s Novel Haomin Gong 5. Narrative as Therapy: Stories of Breast Cancer by Bi Shumin and Xi Xi Howard Y. F. Choy 6. Narrating Cancer, Disabilities, and AIDS: Yan Lianke’s Trilogy of Disease Shelley W. Chan Part III AIDS and Virus: From Film to Forum 7. Reluctant Transcendence: AIDS and the Catastrophic Condition in Gu Changwei’s Film Love for Life Kun Qian 8. Alone Together: Contagion, Stigmatization and Utopia as Therapy in Zhao Liang’s AIDS Documentary Together Li Li 9. The Unknown Virus: The Social Logic of Bio-conspiracy Theories in Contemporary China Kevin Carrico Index
