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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China PDF

257 Pages·2003·3.238 MB·English
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by Nancy N. Chen| 2003| 257 pages| 3.238| English

About Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

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.

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Author:Nancy N. Chen
Publication Year:2003
ISBN:9780231502214
Pages:257
Language:English
File Size:3.238
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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