ISBN: 0231128045

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical soc… Mehr…

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China. anthropology,asia,china,exercise and fitness,health fitness and dieting,history,injuries and rehabilitation,medical,medical books,politics and social sciences Exercise & Fitness, Columbia University Press<

2003, ISBN: 9780231128049

Irvington, New York, U.S.A.: Columbia Univ Pr, 2003. LIKE NEW clean copy, NO marks, UNREAD, may have multiple copies, The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative br… Mehr…

Irvington, New York, U.S.A.: Columbia Univ Pr, 2003. LIKE NEW clean copy, NO marks, UNREAD, may have multiple copies, The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms of qigong while championing scientific versions. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Here anthropologist Nancy Chen illuminates the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China. . Hard Cover. Like New/No Jacket. 8vo., Columbia Univ Pr, 2003<