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A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao, written by Emily Ng

A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao, written by Emily Ng Emily Ng, (2020). A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao. Oakland: University of California Press. Pp. xvi + 224. $85.00 Hardback, ISBN 978-0-5203-0302-7, $34.95 Paperback, ISBN 978-0-5203-0303-4, $34.95 E-book, ISBN 978-0-5209-7263-6.In her ethnography of villagers in Hexian, a county town in Henan Province, central China, Emily Ng opens worlds that have heretofore mostly evaded scholarly conceptualizations of modern China. Based on her anthropological fieldwork, Ng interrogates the overlapping relationship between the practices, beliefs, and motivations of the numerous spirit mediums in present-day China, and the question of madness in the world of biomedical psychiatry. While doing so, she also incisively identifies some of the most pressing sociopolitical problems in post-Mao China, including rural outmigration, disproportionate capital flow to the cities, inordinate exam pressure on poorly resourced high school students, and intergenerational rifts in terms of filiality and other social expectations.Ng makes two primary contributions in this study. First, she links historical and political events with Chinese people’s religious worlds. Thus she combines anthropology and political history with an acute sense of sympathy for the plight of the suffering peasants. Second, her unique contribution is to show the porous boundaries between the official biomedical approach http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Medicine Brill

A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao, written by Emily Ng

Asian Medicine , Volume 17 (2): 3 – Nov 10, 2022

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1573-420X
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1573-4218
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10.1163/15734218-12341522
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Emily Ng, (2020). A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao. Oakland: University of California Press. Pp. xvi + 224. $85.00 Hardback, ISBN 978-0-5203-0302-7, $34.95 Paperback, ISBN 978-0-5203-0303-4, $34.95 E-book, ISBN 978-0-5209-7263-6.In her ethnography of villagers in Hexian, a county town in Henan Province, central China, Emily Ng opens worlds that have heretofore mostly evaded scholarly conceptualizations of modern China. Based on her anthropological fieldwork, Ng interrogates the overlapping relationship between the practices, beliefs, and motivations of the numerous spirit mediums in present-day China, and the question of madness in the world of biomedical psychiatry. While doing so, she also incisively identifies some of the most pressing sociopolitical problems in post-Mao China, including rural outmigration, disproportionate capital flow to the cities, inordinate exam pressure on poorly resourced high school students, and intergenerational rifts in terms of filiality and other social expectations.Ng makes two primary contributions in this study. First, she links historical and political events with Chinese people’s religious worlds. Thus she combines anthropology and political history with an acute sense of sympathy for the plight of the suffering peasants. Second, her unique contribution is to show the porous boundaries between the official biomedical approach

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Published: Nov 10, 2022

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