Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

1. Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche
Andrew B. Kipnis

Part I. Creative Expression and Senses of Self

2. Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China
Ling-Yun Tang

3. “Selling Out” Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China
Emily E. Wilcox

4. The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation
Wanning Sun

Part II. Female Gender and the Relational Psyche

5. 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, Huihua Deng

6. The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China
Harriet Evans

7. 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

8. Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing
Delia Q. Lin

9. Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs
Andrew B. Kipnis

10. Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China
Zhiying Ma

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Self and Identity, Ethnicity Studies