Cultivating self-health subjects
Yangshengand biocitizenship in urban China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4524740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 285-298 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2015.1006176 |
| OpenAlex | W2154689336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 14 |
China's transformation from state-run socialism to market economy has resulted in the progressive privatization of a number of key areas, including public health. At the same time, research suggests that the privatization of public service has given accelerated the formation of self-governing subjects who will enrich and strengthen Chinese authoritarian rule. This is most vividly demonstrated in the tendency of Chinese consumers to engage in the practice of self-health, an integral dimension of the wide-spread yangsheng (life-nurturing) practice at the grassroots level. Engaging with the concept of biocitizenship, and combining critical analysis of media with ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines a nationwide process of health literacy education through popular media and the ways in which this process shapes yangsheng as both discourse and practice. It also identifies a range of ethical positions adopted by individual citizens in response to yangsheng as a discourse, practice and industry. The discussion reveals that biological citizenship has indeed become a new and integral dimension of China's citizenship project in the twenty-first century. We learn that while there is indeed an unambiguously top-down process of making biocitizens, a certain level of biological citizenship ‘from below’ is also present, albeit with distinct Chinese characteristics
Authoritarianism · China · Citizenship · Communism · Democracy · Dimension (graph theory) · Everyday life · Grassroots · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Socialism · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law
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Appetites
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |