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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Li ZhangPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780520344198ISBN 10: 0520344197 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 04 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Psy Fever 2. Bentuhua: Culturing Psychotherapy 3. Therapeutic Relationships with Chinese Characteristics? 4. Branding the Satir Model 5. Crafting a Therapeutic Self 6. Cultivating Happiness 7. Therapeutic Governing Epilogue Notes References IndexReviewsWhile grounded in the ethnographic specificities of middle-class Chinese urbanites, Anxious China offers powerful insights to scholars working on similar questions in diverse regions of the world. * Somatosphere * """While grounded in the ethnographic specificities of middle-class Chinese urbanites, Anxious China offers powerful insights to scholars working on similar questions in diverse regions of the world."" * Somatosphere *" Author InformationLi 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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