Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche [Paperback]

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche; Andrew B. Kipnis PART I: CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND SENSES OF SELF 1. Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China; Ling-Yun Tang 2. Selling Out Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China; Emily Wilcox 3. The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation; Wanning Sun PART II: FEMALE GENDER AND THE RELATIONAL PSYCHE 4. Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers' Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters Future Independence and Excellence; Vanessa L. Fong, Cong Zhang, Sung won Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Zuhong Lu and Huihua Deng 5. The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China; Harriet Evans 6. Modernization and Women's Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim; Hyeon Jung Lee PART III: GOVERNING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA 7. Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing; Delia Lin 8. Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs; Andrew B. Kipnis 9. Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China; Zhiying Ma

Andrew B. Kipnis's edited volume is a welcome contribution to anthropology and China studies alike. The collection of essays is lively, clear, and evocative, and is broken into three parts on art, gender, and self-improvement. - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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