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OverviewApproximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is communicated in China's print media, posters, websites and television, suggesting that its association with Africa and Africans -- portrayed as a distant and backward land and people -- has impacted understandings of HIV/AIDS. It demonstrates how, in China's media, Africans are frequently used to embody the most extreme possibilities of poverty and disease, in contrast with the progressive, scientifically sophisticated Han Chinese, which has encouraged the urban public to develop 'imagined immunity' to HIV. By illustrating how HIV/AIDS is portrayed as a non-Han and racialized disease affecting specific bodies, races and places, the author argues that this discourse has had the effect of distancing many Chinese from the perceived possibility of infection, thus compromising the effectiveness of public health campaigns on HIV/AIDS. The book suggests that the key to combating the spread of HIV/AIDS lies in challenging the ways in which the disease is portrayed in China's media, rather than simply by continuing with the current strategy to educate more people. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Johanna Hood (University of Technology, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: 23 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9780415471985ISBN 10: 0415471982 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 February 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. At the Intersections of HIV/AIDS: Power, Disease, Others, and China’s Media 2. China’s Media: Telling and Knowing HIV/AIDS 3. Differentiating Understandings: hei Black and Blackness, Race, and Place 4. Hei: Africa, Africans and HIV/AIDS 5. Yuanshi: Presenting the Origin and Primitive Circumstances of HIV/AIDS in Africa 6. Kexue: Scientism and HIV/AIDSReviewsAuthor InformationJohanna Hood is a member of the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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