List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Bringing Peripheries to the Center; 1. The Meandering Road to Modernity; 2. Manhood, Migration, and Heroin; 3. Multivocal Drug Control; 4. Contentious Individuality on the Rise; 5. Failed State AIDS Intervention; 6. AIDS and Its Global Stigmatization; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
