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



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Autore: Kohrman Matthew Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bodies of Difference : Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China / / Matthew Kohrman Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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