Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life

Synopsis

China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at China during these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an emphasis on how to achieve an adequate life, the contributors integrate a whole range of life-related domains including: the death of Sun Zhigang, the peril caused by rising tobacco consumption, the emerging suicide intervention, the turning points in the fight against AIDS, the intensely evolving birth policy, the emerging biological citizenship, and so on. In doing so, they explore how biological life has been governed differently to enhance the wellbeing of the population instead of promoting ideological goals. This change, dubbed "the deepening in governmentality," is one of the most important driving forces for China’s rise, and will have huge bearings on how the Chinese will achieve an adequate life in the 21st century. This book presents works by a number of internationally known scholars and will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, history, Chinese philosophy, law, and public health.

Copyright:

2011

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781136849152

Related ISBNs:

9780203834398, 9780415597197, 9780415597197, 9780415597180, 9780415597180

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/09/20

Copyrighted By:

Editorial selection and matter Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Tu Weiming

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Everett Zhang

Edited by:

Arthur Kleinman

Edited by:

Weiming Tu