Disability and Impairment in Early China - Other Bodies

This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Disability in and Around Court 1. Accounting for the disabled in early China: A Review of the Terminology Used to Describe and Define Disability 2. 'Disability' in the Laws of Early and Middle Period China 3. Entangled Bodies and the Birth of a Disabled King 4. Etiologies of Perceptual Impairment and the Responsibilities of Rulership Part 2: Mind the Body: Disabling Impairment 5. Ambiguities of Blindness in Early China: Respected 'Blind Musicians' (Gu) Versus Pitied 'Visually Disabled People' (Gu/Mang) 6. Sound Minds: Deafness and Deaf Metaphors in Early Chinese Texts 7. Three Views of Kuang (Madness) in Early Chinese Thought 8. Records of Dementia and Brain Damage (Kuang ¿) in Early and Medieval China Part 3: Negotiating Identities: Enabling Impairment 9. Empowering Mutilations: Political Aspects of Disability in Early China 10. Deviant and Defiant Bodies in Early China: the Case of the Hunched Zhili Shu 11. Dwarfs in Early China

About the author

Avital H. Rom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Summary

This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.

Product details

• Authors: Avital H. Rom
• Assisted by: Avital H. Rom (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032255194
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225519-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Needham Research Institute Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Asia / China, History of Medicine, History of Science, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Asian History