Anxious China : Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy Paperback / softback
by Li Zhang
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 8 b-w illustrations
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:04/08/2020
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- ISBN:9780520344198
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 8 b-w illustrations
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:04/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520344198