Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China
Matthew Kohrman
Abstract
This book chronicles the story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, it details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and identities across the Chinese landscape during the final decades of the twentieth century. The author looks closely at the creation of the China Disabled Persons' Federation and the lives of numerous individuals, among them Deng Pufang, son of China's Communist leader Deng Xiaoping.
Keywords: disability, sociopolitical activity, China, Deng Xiaoping, China's Communist leader, Deng Pufang, personal exigency, production of institutions, bodies, Disabled Persons' Federation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520226449 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520226449.001.0001 |
