About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2005-05-23
ISBN-13:9780520226456ISBN:0520226453
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520226456ISBN:0520226453
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 5-23-05
ISBN-13:9780520226449ISBN:0520226445
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 5-23-05
ISBN-13:9780520226449ISBN:0520226445
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520226456ISBN:0520226453
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520226456ISBN:0520226453
Description: New. "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, Professor of Anthropo... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520226449ISBN:0520226445
Description: 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg+ condition. Exterior faintly dusty w/ tiniest nick at edge of cover, contents bright, crisp & clean, virtually unopened. xvii, 285 p. Contents: Introduction--A biomythography in the making--Why Ma zhun doesn't count--Building a corporeal corporate body--Speeding up life in Beijing--Troubled sociality: the Federation-Canji relationship in Wenchang County--Dis/ablement and marriage: ridiculed bachelors, ambivalent grooms. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520226456ISBN:0520226453
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520226456ISBN:0520226453
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