Eating spring rice : the cultural politics of AIDS in Southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Sandra Teresa, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--China--Yunnan Sheng.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--China--Yunnan Sheng.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--China--Yunnan Sheng.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

Contents:

pt. 1. Narratives of the state

pt. 2. Narratives of Jinghong, Sipsongpanna.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-255) and index.

ISBN:

9786612358388

9781282358386

1282358383

9780520939486

0520939484

9781433708763

1433708760

OCLC:

476084883