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Governance of life in Chinese moral experience : the quest for an adequate life / edited by Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Tu Weiming.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quality of life--China.
- Quality of life.
- Social values--China.
- Social values.
- China--Social conditions--1976-2000.
- China.
- Social conditions.
- China--Social conditions--2000-.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Summary:
- China has experienced a tremendous turnaround over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an emphasis on how to achieve an adequate life, the contributors integrate a whole range of life-related domains including: the death of Sun Zhigang, the peril caused by rising tobacco consumption, the emerging suicide intervention, the turning points in the fight against AIDS, the intensely evolving birth policy, the creation of biological citizenship, and so on. In doing so, they explore how biological life has been governed differently to enhance the wellbeing of the population instead of promoting ideological goals. This change, dubbed "the deepening in governmentality," is one of the most important driving forces for China's rise, and will have huge bearings oh how the Chinese will achieve an adequate life in the twenty-first century.
- This book presents works by a number of internationally known scholars and will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, history, Chinese philosophy, law, and public health. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Min yi shi wei tian (People regard food as top priority)
- 1. Feeding the revolution: public mess halls and coercive commensality in Maoist China / James L. Watson
- 2. Recalling the Great Leap Famine and recourse to irony / Stephan Feuchtwang
- 3. The truth about the death toll of the Great Leap Famine in Sichuan: an analysis of Maoist sovereignty / Everett Zhang
- pt. II The politics and morality of death
- 4. The death of a detainee: the predicament of status politics in contemporary China and the way out / Liang Zhiping
- 5. Depoliticizing tobacco's exceptionality: male sociality, death, and memory making among Chinese cigarette smokers / Matthew Kohrman
- Pt. III Governing life
- 6. Memories of the barefoot doctor system / Yang Nianqun
- 7. Governing Chinese life: from sovereignty to biopolitical governance / Susan Greenhalgh
- 8. Turning points in China's fight against AIDS since 1985 / Joan Kaufman
- 9. Governing suicide: an ethnological study of Rural Women's program of suicide intervention / Wu Fei
- pt. IV From living being to well-being
- 10. Citizens' perceptions of adequate governance: satisfaction levels among rural and urban Chinese / Tony Saich
- 11. Debating women's rights in Hong Kong: challenges to a colonial category / Rubie S. Watson
- 12. Biological citizenship and its forms / Nikolas Rose.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415597196
- 9780415597180
- 0415597188
- 9780415597197
- 9780203834398
- 0203834399
- OCLC:
- 641535795
- Publisher Number:
- 99945743091
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