Description
Product ID: | 9780520344198 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Anxious China |
Subtitle: | Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy |
Authors: | Author: Li Zhang |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-08-04 |