Passage to Manhood - Youth Migration, Heroin, and Aids in Southwest China

Zusatztext "Shao-hua Liu offers a compelling account of a marginalized Chinese community's experience of heroin addiction and the AIDS pandemic! told through the riveting personal stories of those most affected. At the same time! the author's analysis illuminates a more general historical process affecting rural people everywhere! who are often losers in the new global market." Informationen zum Autor Shao-hua Liu is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include medical anthropology, globalization, modernity, gender, and rural health and medicine in contemporary China. This is her first book. Klappentext "Passage to Manhood" is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China. Zusammenfassung Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China.

Product details

• Authors: Shao-Hua Liu
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9780804770248
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7024-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories