Teresa Kuan
Biographic Data
| ID | 637976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa Kuan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuan |
| SIGNATURE | KUAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1623-586X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Truth or Trick
Truth or Trick" takes the trolley problem thought experiment as a found object and compares it to the psychotherapist's probe in responding to the collection's call to think with stylized ethical dilemmas rather than against them. The article asks what simplification and reduction are good for, without assuming an answer ahead of time. Despite the vastly different aims of philosophy on the one hand and an ethnographically observed clinical practi…
Feelings Run in the Family
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a clinical setting in China, this article makes a contribution to the special issue's examination of the ambiguity of kinship's mutuality by engaging systemic family therapy. Family therapists are no strangers to the negative in family life. 'We-ness' could be a suffocating embrace and potentially the nourishing condition for even the most severe of psychiatric diagnoses. While practitioners understand the purpos…
Introduction to “Moral (and Other) Laboratories”
At the Edge of Safety
Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture
The problem of moral luck, anthropologically speaking
While cultural responses to misfortune have long been an area of anthropological inquiry, this article examines the first person experience of misfortune and regret. I specifically explore why people take personal blame for consequences for which they were not entirely responsible, building on Bernard Williams's discussion of 'moral luck' and 'agent-regret'. I argue that the liberation of responsible human agency from 'false causes' - a promise m…
Love's Uncertainty
Love’s Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents’ experiences in…
Communities of Complicity
The Horrific and the Exemplary
A certain kind of news story appears in the Chinese media every so often: a junior middle school student hung herself, a university student threw sulfuric acid at some zoo animals, a biotechnology student murdered his classmates. These media stories are extreme and sensational indeed. But they also do important cultural work. In the context of education reform in late socialist China, the collective interpretation of horror stories provides a mor…
The Heart Says One Thing but the Hand Does Another
The Heart Says One Thing but the Hand Does Another
The problem of moral luck, anthropologically speaking
While cultural responses to misfortune have long been an area of anthropological inquiry, this article examines the first person experience of misfortune and regret. I specifically explore why people take personal blame for consequences for which they were not entirely responsible, building on Bernard Williams's discussion of 'moral luck' and 'agent-regret'. I argue that the liberation of responsible human agency from 'false causes' - a promise m…
Feelings Run in the Family
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a clinical setting in China, this article makes a contribution to the special issue's examination of the ambiguity of kinship's mutuality by engaging systemic family therapy. Family therapists are no strangers to the negative in family life. 'We-ness' could be a suffocating embrace and potentially the nourishing condition for even the most severe of psychiatric diagnoses. While practitioners understand the purpos…
The Horrific and the Exemplary
A certain kind of news story appears in the Chinese media every so often: a junior middle school student hung herself, a university student threw sulfuric acid at some zoo animals, a biotechnology student murdered his classmates. These media stories are extreme and sensational indeed. But they also do important cultural work. In the context of education reform in late socialist China, the collective interpretation of horror stories provides a mor…
The Heart Says One Thing but the Hand Does Another
The Horrific and the Exemplary
A certain kind of news story appears in the Chinese media every so often: a junior middle school student hung herself, a university student threw sulfuric acid at some zoo animals, a biotechnology student murdered his classmates. These media stories are extreme and sensational indeed. But they also do important cultural work. In the context of education reform in late socialist China, the collective interpretation of horror stories provides a mor…
Communities of Complicity
Love's Uncertainty
Love’s Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents’ experiences in…
Introduction to “Moral (and Other) Laboratories”
At the Edge of Safety
Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture
The problem of moral luck, anthropologically speaking
While cultural responses to misfortune have long been an area of anthropological inquiry, this article examines the first person experience of misfortune and regret. I specifically explore why people take personal blame for consequences for which they were not entirely responsible, building on Bernard Williams's discussion of 'moral luck' and 'agent-regret'. I argue that the liberation of responsible human agency from 'false causes' - a promise m…
Feelings Run in the Family
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a clinical setting in China, this article makes a contribution to the special issue's examination of the ambiguity of kinship's mutuality by engaging systemic family therapy. Family therapists are no strangers to the negative in family life. 'We-ness' could be a suffocating embrace and potentially the nourishing condition for even the most severe of psychiatric diagnoses. While practitioners understand the purpos…
Truth or Trick
Truth or Trick" takes the trolley problem thought experiment as a found object and compares it to the psychotherapist's probe in responding to the collection's call to think with stylized ethical dilemmas rather than against them. The article asks what simplification and reduction are good for, without assuming an answer ahead of time. Despite the vastly different aims of philosophy on the one hand and an ethnographically observed clinical practi…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · China (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works)