Occupational hazards : sex, business, and HIV in post-Mao China / Elanah Uretsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uretsky, Elanah, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV infections--Social aspects--China.

HIV infections.

Businessmen--Sexual behavior--China.

Businessmen.

Social networks--China.

Social networks.

Masculinity--China.

Masculinity.

China--Officials and employees--Sexual behavior.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Doing business in China can be hazardous to your health. Occupational Hazards follows a group of Chinese businessmen and government officials as they conduct business in Beijing and western Yunnan Province, exposing webs of informal networks that help businessmen access political favors. These networks are built over liquor, cigarettes, food, and sex, turning risky behaviors into occupational hazards. Elanah Uretsky's ethnography follows these powerful men and their vulnerabilities to China's burgeoning epidemics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS. Examining the relationship between elite masculine networking practices and vulnerability to HIV infection, Occupational Hazards includes the stories of countless government officials and businessmen who regularly visit commercial sex workers but resist HIV testing for fear of threatening their economic and political status. Their fate is further complicated by a political system that cannot publicly acknowledge such risk and by authoritative international paradigms that limit the reach of public health interventions. Ultimately, Uretsky offers insights into how complex socio-cultural and politico-economic negotiations affect the development and administration of China's HIV epidemic.

Contents:

Introduction : an epidemic at the margins of governance and governmentality

The state, work, and men's health

Constructing the "nanzihan" : hegemonic masculinity in urban China

New China, new life ... sex included : negotiating private lives and public discourse in post-Mao urban China

Negotiating risk and power : the role of sexual scripts and networks in HIV transmission

Tracing the development of China's HIV

Engineering a local response to a global pandemic in China

Conclusion : going beyond the evidence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804797566

0804797560

OCLC:

1198931766