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

Kohrman, Matthew

ISBN 10: 0520226453 / ISBN 13: 9780520226456

Verlag: University of California, 2005

Beschreibung

Softcover. xvii, 285 pp. " .the compelling study of disability's emergence as a site for significant activity in contemporary China." Illustrated with 9 b&w photos. Bottom back corner lightly curled, otherwise a bright clean copy.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014477

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China
• Verlag: University of California
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0520226453
• ISBN-13: 9780520226456
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Anthropology

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Kohrman is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.