China, aging and theory
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China, aging and theory
（Social perspectives of aging / Jason L. Powell, series editor）
Novinka, Nova Science Publishers, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [67]-73) index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a theoretical critique and analysis of the development and consolidation of power in China as it applies to ageing. In seeking to deal with this increased proportion of elderly people, Chinese state policy seeks to introduce ways of reducing the fiscal burden of ageing upon the state, and indeed upon those many families who have been markedly affected by the modernisation process. This book, however, fundamentally questions the assumption that populational policies in the Chinese state are unbiased in their social practices with older people. The book explores new topics of ageing in China grounded in and drawing from developments in social theory, (ie), Foucauldian theory and postmodernism.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Activity, Aging & China
- China, Gerontology & the Bio-Medicalization of Aging: Reflections & Issues
- A Foucauldian Analysis of Aging in China
- Postmodernism, Aging Identity & Narrative in China
- Beyond China? Aging in Asia
- Index.
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