Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

Xinyin Chen, University of Pennsylvania, USAHuihua Deng, Southeast University, USAHarriet Evans, University of Westminster, USAVanessa L. Fong, Harvard University, USASung won Kim, Harvard University, USAHyeon Jung Lee, Seoul National University, KoreaDelia Lin, The University of Adelaide, AustraliaZuhong Lu, Southeast University, USAZhiying Ma, University of Chicago, USAWanning Sun, University of Technology, AustraliaLing-Yun Tang, University of Hong KongNiobe Way, New York University, USAEmily Wilcox, The College of William and Mary, USAHirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University, USACong Zhang, Harvard University, USA

• Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche; Andrew B. Kipnis PART I: CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND SENSES OF SELF 1. Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China; Ling-Yun Tang 2. "Selling Out" Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China; Emily Wilcox 3. The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation; Wanning Sun PART II: FEMALE GENDER AND THE RELATIONAL PSYCHE 4. Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers' Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters Future Independence and Excellence; Vanessa L. Fong, Cong Zhang, Sung won Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Zuhong Lu and Huihua Deng 5. The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China; Harriet Evans 6. Modernization and Women's Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim; Hyeon Jung Lee PART III: GOVERNING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA 7. Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing; Delia Lin 8. Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs; Andrew B. Kipnis 9. Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China; Zhiying Ma

Andrew B. Kipnis's edited volume is a welcome contribution to anthropology and China studies alike. The collection of essays is lively, clear, and evocative, and is broken into three parts on art, gender, and self-improvement." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche is an important book. It advances an ongoing conversation about the changing relationship between power and subjectivity under Chinese modernity. It could easily be adopted in an undergraduate course on modern Chinese history or Chinese society, especially in courses that aim to destabilize the notion that socialism is bad while economic liberalization is good." - The China Journal"I warmly recommend the volume for anyone interested in the topic of individual and self in China, in the ways Chinese individuals are governed through various institutions and in different cultural settings, and for those interested in theories of modernity and individuation in the context of China." - The China Quarterly