Li Zhang

Anxious China (eBook, ePUB)

Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520975392
• Artikelnr.: 58761432

Autorenporträt

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.