新书丨Li Zhang（张鹂）：Anxious China

关键词

人类学；张鹂；心理治疗；中产阶级

图书信息

Anxious China

Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

作者：张鹂（Li Zhang）

出版社：University of California Press

出版时间：August 2020

ISBN：9780520344198

内容简介

The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

作者简介

张鹂，美国加州大学戴维斯分校人类学系教授，康奈尔大学人类学博士（1998）。研究方向为城市人类学、人口流动、中产阶级及其消费事件、后社会主义等。著有《城市里的陌生人》（Strangers in the City，Stanford University Press，2002，获2001年美国社会学学会罗伯特·帕克图书奖）、《大房子，小天堂》（In Search of Paradise，Cornell University Press，2010，获2012年美国社会学学会罗伯特·帕克图书奖、2011年美国人类学学会许烺光图书奖）。

评      论

'An original and important exploration of the various ways that psychotherapies are being enculturated and popularized in China today. The result, Li Zhang so successfully shows, is a new instrument for self-transformations, institutional rationality, and political authority.'

——Arthur Kleinman（凯博文），哈佛大学人类学系教授

'Anxious China is a fascinating exploration of the new power of psychological thinking and therapy in China. Rich with comparative insights, the book greatly broadens our cross-cultural understanding of the effects of psychological thinking for concepts of the self and sociality and for the maintenance of political power in postsocialist China.'

——Emily Martin（芮马丁），纽约大学人类学系荣休教授

'Li Zhang always has her finger on the pulse of key transformations in contemporary Chinese culture and society. This insightful and moving ethnography is not a narrative about the emergence of an individualistic self in China. Rather, Zhang offers a nuanced analysis of popular psy fever in what she calls the anxious times of rapid transformations in China, linking an inner revolution of self-care to a reshaped sociality and governance.'

——Lisa Rofel（罗丽莎），加州大学圣克鲁兹分校人类学系教授