The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man

Posted By: arundhati
Date: Nov. 15, 2019

C. Lynteris, "The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man "
English | ISBN: 1349451355 | 2013 | 126 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.