The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China

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

1st Edition 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: 9781349451357
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 2013
Language: English
Number of pages: 126
Weight: -1g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm