Bodies of Difference by Matthew Kohrman
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.
"Bodies of Difference is a breath of fresh air in this tremendously important arena of medical anthropologyKohrman writes very clearly and with grace, and the scholarship is evident on every page." - Linda S. Mitteness, University of California, San Francisco "Korhman reveals to us with a keen ethnographic eye and a clear prose style the emergent world of disabilities in China. His analysis of this biobureaucracy and of the stakes of bodies and lives is illuminating." - Paul Rabinow, author of Anthropos Today"
Matthew Kohrman is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520226456 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520226453 |
| Title | Bodies of Difference |
| Author | Matthew Kohrman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2005-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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