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Author Feiyu, Sun

Title Social suffering and political confession : Suku in modern China / Sun Feiyu
Published Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 197 pages) : illustrations
Series Peking University series on sociology and anthropology, 2335-657X ; v. 1
Peking University series on sociology and anthropology ; v. 1.
Contents Ch. 1. When revolution met rural China -- ch. 2. Suku: beyond a political instrument -- ch. 3. On social neurosis -- ch. 4. On social suffering -- ch. 5. Suku and power -- ch. 6. Suku, modern China, and beyond
Summary This book closely examines one relatively small but significant political phenomenon - Suku in Revolutionary China through a matrix of western social theory: Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Suku is the practice of confessing individual suffering in a political context and in a collective public forum. By interpreting Suku from the joint perspectives of political identity and subjective psychological identity, the aim of the book is to postulate a new paradigm for discussing social suffering and collective confession in a political context that represents the radical transformation in China's modern history. This book presents an analysis of the transformation of identity from the traditional to the modern, both for the individual peasant and for the state of China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Social history.
Suffering.
social history.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Social history
Suffering
SUBJECT China -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024032
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789814407304
9814407305
9814407291
9789814407298
9781299133174
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