Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.

Andrew B. Kipnis's edited volume is a welcome contribution to anthropology and China studies alike. The collection of essays is lively, clear, and evocative, and is broken into three parts on art, gender, and self-improvement." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche is an important book. It advances an ongoing conversation about the changing relationship between power and subjectivity under Chinese modernity. It could easily be adopted in an undergraduate course on modern Chinese history or Chinese society, especially in courses that aim to destabilize the notion that socialism is bad while economic liberalization is good." - The China Journal

"I warmly recommend the volume for anyone interested in the topic of individual and self in China, in the ways Chinese individuals are governed through various institutions and in different cultural settings, and for those interested in theories of modernity and individuation in the context of China." - The China Quarterly

Autorentext
Xinyin Chen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Huihua Deng, Southeast University, USA Harriet Evans, University of Westminster, USA Vanessa L. Fong, Harvard University, USA Sung won Kim, Harvard University, USA Hyeon Jung Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Delia Lin, The University of Adelaide, Australia Zuhong Lu, Southeast University, USA Zhiying Ma, University of Chicago, USA Wanning Sun, University of Technology, Australia Ling-Yun Tang, University of Hong Kong Niobe Way, New York University, USA Emily Wilcox, The College of William and Mary, USA Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University, USA Cong Zhang, Harvard University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche; Andrew B. Kipnis PART I: CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND SENSES OF SELF 1. Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China; Ling-Yun Tang 2. "Selling Out" Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China; Emily Wilcox 3. The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation; Wanning Sun PART II: FEMALE GENDER AND THE RELATIONAL PSYCHE 4. Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers' Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters Future Independence and Excellence; Vanessa L. Fong, Cong Zhang, Sung won Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Zuhong Lu and Huihua Deng 5. The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China; Harriet Evans 6. Modernization and Women's Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim; Hyeon Jung Lee PART III: GOVERNING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA 7. Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing; Delia Lin 8. Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs; Andrew B. Kipnis 9. Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China; Zhiying Ma