| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 leade. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- China.
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People with disabilities. |
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China. |
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Biopolitics -- China.
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Biopolitics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kohrman, Matthew, 1964- Bodies of difference. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520226445 0520226453 (DLC) 2004005279 (OCoLC)54692003 |
| ISBN |
9780520935563 (electronic book) |
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052093556X (electronic book) |
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1597345040 (electronic book) |
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9781597345040 (electronic book) |
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9780520226449 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520226445 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520226456 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520226453 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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