Everett Yuehong Zhang

The Impotence Epidemic

Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China

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Produktbeschreibung

In this ethnography of impotence as a medical and social phenomenon, Everett Yuehong Zhang argues that the recent increase in Chinese men seeking treatment for impotence represents a shift in changing sexual attitudes in capitalist China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 165mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358565
• ISBN-10: 0822358565
• Artikelnr.: 40846753

Autorenporträt

Everett Yuehong Zhang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the co-editor of Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life, and co-author of Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Impotence Epidemic in China 1
Part I: Society and the State
1. The Birth of Nanke (Men's Medicine) 29
2. Sexual Repression 51
3. One Thousand Bodies of Impotence 71
4. Impotence, Family, and Women 101
Part II: Potency and Life
5. The Loss of Jing (Seminal Essence) and the Revival of Yangsheng (the
Cultivation of Life) 135
6. Bushen (Nourishing the Kidney), Shugan (Smoothing out the Liver), or
Taking the Great Brother (Viagra) 166
7. Potency Is Fullness of Life 198
Conclusion: "If Shen (the Kidney) Is Strong, Life Is Good" 221
Notes 229
References 251
Index 277