Discourses of disease : : writing illness, the mind and the body in modern China / / edited by Howard Y.F. Choy.
The meanings of disease have undergone such drastic changes with the introduction of modern Western medicine into China during the last two hundred years that new discourses have been invented to theorize illness, redefine health, and reconstruct classes and genders. As a consequence, medical litera...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Howard Y. F. Choy
- Introduction: Disease and Discourse / Howard Y. F. Choy
- James Henderson’s Shanghai Hygiene and the British Constitution in Early Modern China / Stephanie Villalta Puig
- Curing Unhappiness in Revolutionary China: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism / Wendy Larson
- Metaphors unto Themselves: Mental Illness Poetics and Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Poetry / Birgit Bunzel Linder
- Unmaking of Nationalism: Drug Addiction and Its Literary Imagination in Bi Shumin’s Novel / Haomin Gong
- Narrative as Therapy: Stories of Breast Cancer by Bi Shumin and Xi Xi / Howard Y. F. Choy
- Narrating Cancer, Disabilities, and aids: Yan Lianke’s Trilogy of Disease / Shelley W. Chan
- Reluctant Transcendence: aids and the Catastrophic Condition in Gu Changwei’s Film Love for Life / Kun Qian
- Alone Together: Contagion, Stigmatization and Utopia as Therapy in Zhao Liang’s aids Documentary Together / Li Li
- The Unknown Virus: The Social Logic of Bio-conspiracy Theories in Contemporary China / Kevin Carrico
- Index / Howard Y. F. Choy.