Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China

by Sandra Hyde

Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247159
• ISBN13: 9780520247154
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"