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

by Christos Lynteris

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'.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137293829
• ISBN13: 9781137293824
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"