The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man

The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man - Palgrave Pivot

2013

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Publisher's Synopsis

Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137293824
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Pub date:
Edition: 2013
DEWEY: 320.53095109045
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 126
Weight: 318g
Height: 218mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 15mm