The making of the human sciences in China : : historical and conceptual foundations / / edited by Howard Chiang.

This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Healt...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:China studies ; 40.
Physical Description:1 online resource (565 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China / Howard Chiang
  • Parameters of Human Life
  • Technology / Francesca Bray
  • Cartography / Alexander Akin
  • Ethnography / Laura Hostetler
  • Historiography / Matthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang
  • Reproduction / Yi-Li Wu
  • Ghostly Encounters / Hsiu-fen Chen
  • Formations of the Modern Subject
  • Race / Frank Dikötter
  • Ethnicity / Bin Yang
  • Citizenship / Joshua Hill
  • Class / Stephen A. Smith
  • Sexuality / Howard Chiang
  • Gender / Tani Barlow
  • Disciplining Knowledge
  • Economics / Joyman Lee
  • Psychology / Zhipeng Gao
  • Statistics / Andrea Bréard
  • Sociology / Yung-chen Chiang
  • Anthropology / Hsiao-pei Yen
  • Political Science / John Feng
  • Deciphering Health
  • Anatomy / David Luesink
  • Forensic Medicine / Daniel Asen
  • Physical Hygiene / Ruth Rogaski
  • Mental Health / Wen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang
  • Psychiatry / Harry Yi-Jui Wu
  • Psychoanalysis / Jingyuan Zhang
  • Back Matter
  • Index.