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The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949-1980

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This book observes the growing importance of individual well-being for collective health in socialist China and the limitations this brought on the authorities. Engaging with contemporary popular media discourse-including handbooks and magazine articles on health and health practices-to demonstrate how biomedical knowledge was ingrained in the readership, this book uncovers the detailed path to health propagated by state media for the Chinese population. This authority-sanctioned discussion opened up a space for talking about a body entwined with production and the personal experience of daily life. Nutrition, exercise, and rest were the main fields in which the party- state encouraged and accommodated healthy behavior to foster a strong population in the wake of the building of the "New China." These three case studies highlight the network of social groups, institutions, and experts involved in the production and implementation of health knowledge as well as the continuity of health discourse itself. Through a thorough exploration of these three pillars of health and the emerging debate on civilization diseases, this book unearths the often-ignored limits of state control over human bodies.
Renee Krusche is postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Part I: Nutritional Government Chapter 1 Shapes of Nutrition Chapter 2 Spaces of Food Part II: Physical Government Chapter 3 Plans for the Body Chapter 4 Time to Rest Part III: Disease Government Chapter 5 Overweight and Obesity Chapter 6 Hypertension
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