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Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series

Editors: Kipnis, Andrew B.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137268969

ISBN: 978-1-349-44369-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 4, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

Kipnis, Andrew B.

Pages: 1 –16

[The topics of modernity and individualism have a long and rich history in Western social theory. Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck, Zygmaunt Bauman, and Nikolas Rose have all written at length about them. Needless to say, what...
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Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China

Tang, Ling-Yun

Pages: 19 –41

[How have the profound economic, social, and cultural changes set in motion by the Chinese state’s policy of market liberalization since the late 1970s affected the content of art and the self-conceptions of young Chinese artists? This essay explores the relationship between art and socioeconomic...
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“Selling Out” Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China

Wilcox, Emily E.

Pages: 43 –65

[As the papers in this volume show, any exploration of the individual in China must attend critically to the notion of the individual as a conceptual analytic. In the context of the Reform Era (1976 to the present), experiences and understandings of the individual exist in relation to, and often...
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The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation

Sun, Wanning

Pages: 67 –85

[Industrialization involves a range of spatial and institutional practices that “turn a young and rural body into an industrialized and productive laborer” (Pun 2005: 77), transforming “lazy” and “unproductive” laborers “bodies and minds, behaviours and beliefs, gestures and habits, and attitudes...
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Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers’ Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters’ Future Independence and Excellence

Fong, Vanessa L.; Zhang, Cong; Kim, Sung Won; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Way, Niobe; Chen, Xinyin; Lu, Zuhong; Deng, Huihua

Pages: 89 –117

[What kinds of futures can urban Chinese mothers imagine for their toddler daughters? How do gender role expectations shape what they imagine? This paper addresses these questions by looking at how a high-income mother and a low-income mother in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, talked...
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The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China

Evans, Harriet

Pages: 119 –147

[The individual “self” (ziwo) occupies a privileged place in p opular media and academic discussions about China’s post-Mao social and cultural transformation. 1 Alongside marketization and urbanization, a family oriented and collectivist ethics of personal responsibilities molded by Confucian as...
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Modernization and Women’s Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim

Lee, Hyeon Jung

Pages: 149 –165

[Durkheim’s Suicide (1951 [1897]) has influenced social scientific perspectives on suicide for over a century. Based on his four-fold typology of suicide (egoistic, anomic, altruistic, and fatalistic), Durkheim argued that the process of modernization can engender an increase in egoistic and...
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Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing

Lin, Delia Q.

Pages: 169 –185

[That’s what Lihua Xie, editor of Rural Woman magazine and Secretary General of the Development Centre for Rural Women in Beijing, wrote in one of her Rural Woman editorials to encourage rural women to be financially independent. Lihua Xie is one of the key advocates for equal rights for women,...
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Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs

Kipnis, Andrew B.

Pages: 187 –202

[In Zouping, the rapidly urbanizing, rural county where I have been conducting research for over two decades, there has recently been a rather sudden increase in the number of private educational businesses. Though a few services had been available since the late 1990s, the number of businesses...
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Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China

Ma, Zhiying

Pages: 203 –227

[It was a busy weekday afternoon in a schizophrenia ward of a renowned psychiatric hospital in Southern China. After visiting their loved ones in the muggy and noisy dayroom, many families stopped by at the air-conditioned office outside of the iron-barred ward and discussed the patients’...

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