The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China

C. Lynteris

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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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'.

ISBN-13
9781137293824
ISBN-10
1137293829
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-10-30
Pages
126
Dimensions
218x147x15
Weight
318