Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

by Sayo N. Masuda and Nancy N. Chen

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128045
• ISBN13: 9780231128049
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher