Deep China : The Moral Life of the Person.

There may be no other country in the world that has undergone as many changes in the last 30 years as China. During this period, China has been transformed from an agricultural society into the second largest economy in the world. In addition to economic, political, and ideological changes during these fast-moving and sometimes turbulent years, the Chinese have gone through some fundamental transformations in their values, morals, and worldviews as well. Consequently, these transformations have impacted the mental and physical health of the Chinese people and their understanding of themselves. Deep China is a collection of extraordinary scholarly works by Harvard medical anthropologist Kleinman and seven Chinese anthropologists and psychiatrists. The issues examined are diverse, from family politics, sexual revolution, social injustice, and mental illnesses, to people's quests for happiness, justice, respect, contributions to the world, and so on. The authors have gone deeply into different geographic areas and populations of Chinese society to reveal people's emotional and moral adaptations to their fast-changing social and economic environments as well as their continuous exploration of the meanings of all of these transformations. A must-have for medical anthropology and China studies. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. A. Y. Lee George Mason University