Bodies of Difference : Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China / / Matthew Kohrman
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| Autore: |
Kohrman Matthew
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| Titolo: |
Bodies of Difference : Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China / / Matthew Kohrman
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2005] |
| ©2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.4/0951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biopolitics - China |
| People with disabilities - China | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
| advocacy | |
| advocates | |
| beijing | |
| biomythography | |
| biopolitics | |
| corporate body | |
| cultural history | |
| culture | |
| disability studies | |
| disability | |
| disabled persons | |
| institutional advocacy | |
| marriage | |
| mental deficiencies | |
| mental disabilities | |
| mental impairments | |
| modern china | |
| modern world | |
| modernity | |
| myth | |
| physical disabilities | |
| race | |
| racism | |
| scholarly | |
| social history | |
| social justice | |
| social studies | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bodies of Difference |
| ISBN: | 1-59734-504-0 |
| 1-282-76242-7 | |
| 9786612762420 | |
| 0-520-93556-X | |
| 1-4175-8498-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783318503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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