Disability in Contemporary China - Citizenship, Identity and Culture

List of contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction. Understanding disability and citizenship in China; 1. Where did all the disabled people go? Cultural invisibility before 1976; 2. Backstage to centre stage: new heroes in the age of reform; 3. Entertainment or education? Disability and the cinematic imagination; 4. A narrative prosthesis? Disability and the literary imagination; 5. Blind, but not in the dark: realism sheds new light on visual impairment; 6. Private lives for public consumption: writing our disabled life stories; conclusion: the perils and possibilities of para-citizenship; References; Index.

About the author

Sarah Dauncey is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on identity, disability, gender and culture from late imperial times to the present. She is co-editor of Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010: Histories of the Elusive Self (2013).

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Dauncey, Sarah (University of Nottingham) Dauncey, Dauncey Sarah, Dauncey Sarah Dauncey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781107118539
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11853-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; China, HISTORY / Asia / General, History - General History, Social discrimination & inequality, Asian History, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Social discrimination and social justice