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The impotence epidemic : men's medicine and sexual desire in contemporary China / Everett Yuehong Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Everett.
- Series:
- Critical global health.
- Critical global health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impotence--Treatment--China.
- Impotence.
- Men--Sexual behavior--China.
- Men.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In this ethnography of impotence as a medical and social phenomenon, Everett Yuehong Zhang argues that the recent increase in Chinese men seeking treatment for impotence represents a shift in changing sexual attitudes in capitalist China.</div>
- Contents:
- The birth of nanke (men's medicine)
- Sexual repression
- One thousand bodies of impotence
- Impotence, family, and women
- The loss of jing (seminal essence) and the revival of yangsheng (the cultivation of life)
- Bushen (nourishing the kidney), shugan (smoothing out the liver) or taking the great brother (Viagra)
- Potency is fullness of life
- Conclusion: If shen (the kidney) is strong, life is good.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358565
- 0822358565
- 9780822375746
- 0822375745
- OCLC:
- 1139397941
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