Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 271p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520247154
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0520247140
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9780520247147
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0520247159
Content:
Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.Hyde approa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-255) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration; Introduction The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Postreform China; PART ONE. Narratives of the State; 1. The Aesthetics of Statistics; 2. Everyday AIDS Practices: Risky Bodies and Contested Borders; PART TWO. Narratives of Jinghong, Sipsongpanna; 3. Sex Tourism and Performing Ethnicity in Jinghong; 4. Eating Spring Rice: Transactional Sex in a Beauty Salon; 5. A Sexual Hydraulic: Commercial "Sex Workers" and Condoms; 6. Moral Economies of Sexuality; Epilogue What Is to Be Done?; Notes; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520247154
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eating Spring Rice : The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China
Language:
English
