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Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

de Judith Farquhar, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff ...

Series series Body, Commodity, Text
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing—Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are ... Leer más

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Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

Plurality and Synthesis

de Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...

Series series Science and Cultural Theory
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's ... Leer más

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An Anatomy of Chinese

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On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... Leer más

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