The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China

Socialist Medicine and the New Man
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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'.

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  • ISBN13 9781137293831
  • Released 2012
  • Publisher Palgrave Pivot
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Language English