Mathematics and Science, General Issues, History of Science
The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China

The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man

Hardback Published on: 30/10/2012
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Synopsis

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'.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • ISBN: 9781137293824
  • Number of pages: 126
  • Dimensions: 218 x 147 x 15 mm
  • Weight: 318g
  • Languages: English