The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China
Socialist Medicine and the New Man| By: | C. Lynteris |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137293824 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137293831 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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'.