Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China by Nancy N. Chen

Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China



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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China Nancy N. Chen
Language: English
Page: 272
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0231128045, 9780231502214
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For readers sometimes puzzled by recent mind-body movements in China and responses by central and regional governments, Chen's clear and scholarly presentation will prove most helpful. This book becomes even more important now that the movement and others like it have spread globally, including to Europe, the New World, and the US. Highly recommended.

(Choice )

The book's originality lies both in its focus on the medicalization process and psychiatry, and in a theoretically innovative approach based on the medicalization process and psychiatry, and in a theoretically innovative approach based on the concepts of body politics and spaces.... Breathing Spaces is incontestably a very valuable contribution to medical anthropology and religious studies in the context of Chinese culture, and to global cultural studies.

(Evelyne Micollier Journal of Chinese Religions )

Review

Before there was Falun Gong, there was qigong psychosis; and before that qigong was a traditional healing methodology and health enhancing practice. Nancy Chen tells the whole story, along the way connecting masters and practitioners of breathing techniques and meditation to the major cultural, political, economic, and moral transformations that China has undergone in the last several decades of economic change. But Chen's interesting and useful account is also a story of psychiatry and globalization, making for a rich and bubbling hot pot of ideas, practices, and embodied experience.

(Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University )

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