The spirit of selflessness in Maoist China : socialist medicine and the new man
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The spirit of selflessness in Maoist China : socialist medicine and the new man
(Palgrave pivot)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes index
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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'.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on Transcription Introduction The Sublimation of Skill Self-Cultivation: Confucian Roots Red or Expert? Abolishing the Self as Private Property Conclusion Index
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