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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450084703321

Autore

Kohrman Matthew

Titolo

Bodies of Difference : Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China / / Matthew Kohrman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2005]

©2005

ISBN

1-59734-504-0

1-282-76242-7

9786612762420

0-520-93556-X

1-4175-8498-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

362.4/0951

Soggetti

Biopolitics - China

People with disabilities - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Biomythography in the Making -- 2. Why Ma Zhun Doesn't Count -- 3. Building a Corporeal Corporate Body -- 4. Speeding Up Life in Beijing -- 5. Troubled Sociality: The Federation-Canji Relationship in Wenchang County -- 6. Dis/ablement and Marriage: Ridiculed Bachelors, Ambivalent Grooms -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix A. The Five Criteria of Disability Used by the 1987 National Sampling Survey of the Disabled -- Appendix B -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, Matthew Kohrman details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and identities across the Chinese landscape during the final decades of the twentieth century. He looks closely at the creation of the China



Disabled Persons' Federation and the lives of numerous individuals, among them Deng Pufang, son of China's Communist leader Deng Xiaoping.