Learning to love : intimacy and the discourse of development in China / Sonya E. Pritzker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pritzker, Sonya E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holistic medicine--China.

Holistic medicine.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Summary:

Learning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of "learning to love" at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular "mind-body-spirit" bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of the 21st century. This intimate form of self-care exists alongside the fast-moving, growing capitalist society of contemporary China and has emerged as an understandable response to the pressures of Chinese industrialized life in the early 21st century. Opening with an investigation of the complex ways newcomers to the center suffered a sense of being "off," both in and with the world at multiple scales, Learning to Love then examines how new horizons of possibility are opened as people interact with one another as well as with a range of aesthetic objects at New Life.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on September 23, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-472-22176-0

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.