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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lynteris, C

Titel

The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China : Socialist Medicine and the New Man [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transcription; Introduction; 1 The Sublimation of Skill; 2 Self-Cultivation: Confucian Roots; 3 Red or Expert?; 4 Abolishing the Self as Private Property; Conclusion; Index
• 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'.
• English