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BREATHING SPACES
QIGONG, PSYCHIATRY, AND HEALING IN CHINA |
| By: |
Nancy N. Chen |
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Paperback |
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£32.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0231128053 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780231128056 |
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| Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2003 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
The charismatic form of healing called qigong, which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China since the early 1980s. This text examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan and the USA. |
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The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China. |
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US |
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Columbia University Press |
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