Anxious China
Li Zhang
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.
Kundenbewertungen
psyche, socioeconomic structures, family dynamics, satir model, middle class urbanites, mental disorders, inner revolution, social changes, contemporary chinese society, selfhood, therapeutic relationships, mental distress, self transformation, ethnography, mental health, psychotherapeutic culture, institutional rationality, political authority, economic reform, economics, happiness, psychological counseling, therapeutic governing, china, inner landscape, sociality, therapeutic self, market driven competition