HIV/AIDS, health and the media in China : imagined immunity through racialized disease / Johanna Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Johanna, author.

Series:

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 23.

Media, culture, and social change in Asia ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--China.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease) in mass media--China.

AIDS (Disease) in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China, with an increasing number of new cases every year. As a result, HIV organizations have boomed, with both state and non-governmental organisations responding to the threat with campaigns to increase public awareness of the disease, utilising the media as the primary tool to reshape citizens' understandings and views of HIV/AIDS. This book explores how HIV/AIDS is portrayed in China's media. It argues that, despite increasing education campaigns, media coverage and social and academic openness towards HIV/AIDS, many Chinese of the majority

Contents:

At the intersections of HIV/AIDS : power, disease, others, and China's media

China's media : telling and knowing HIV/AIDS

Differentiating understandings : hei black and blackness, race, and place

Hei : Africa, Africans, and HIV/AIDS

Yuanshi : presenting the origin and primitive circumstances of HIV/AIDS in Africa

Kexue : scientism and HIV/AIDS.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-83895-3

1-283-10478-4

9786613104786

1-136-83896-1

0-203-83281-7

9780203832813

OCLC:

764571319