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The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man C. Lynteris
The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man
C. Lynteris
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'.
138 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781137293824 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 126 |
| Dimensions | 147 × 218 × 15 mm · 318 g |