Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China....Pages 19-41
“Selling Out” Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China....Pages 43-65
The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation....Pages 67-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers’ Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters’ Future Independence and Excellence....Pages 89-117
The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China....Pages 119-147
Modernization and Women’s Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim....Pages 149-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing....Pages 169-185
Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs....Pages 187-202
Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China....Pages 203-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-236