人類學(xué)；張鸝；心理治療；中產(chǎn)階級

Anxious China

Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

作者：張鸝（Li Zhang）

出版社：University of California Press

出版時(shí)間：August 2020

ISBN：9780520344198

The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

張鸝，美國加州大學(xué)戴維斯分校人類學(xué)系教授，康奈爾大學(xué)人類學(xué)博士（1998）。研究方向?yàn)槌鞘腥祟悓W(xué)、人口流動、中產(chǎn)階級及其消費(fèi)事件、后社會主義等。著有《城市里的陌生人》（Strangers in the City，Stanford University Press，2002，獲2001年美國社會學(xué)學(xué)會羅伯特·帕克圖書獎）、《大房子，小天堂》（In Search of Paradise，Cornell University Press，2010，獲2012年美國社會學(xué)學(xué)會羅伯特·帕克圖書獎、2011年美國人類學(xué)學(xué)會許烺光圖書獎）。

'An original and important exploration of the various ways that psychotherapies are being enculturated and popularized in China today. The result, Li Zhang so successfully shows, is a new instrument for self-transformations, institutional rationality, and political authority.'

——Arthur Kleinman（凱博文），哈佛大學(xué)人類學(xué)系教授

'Anxious China is a fascinating exploration of the new power of psychological thinking and therapy in China. Rich with comparative insights, the book greatly broadens our cross-cultural understanding of the effects of psychological thinking for concepts of the self and sociality and for the maintenance of political power in postsocialist China.'

——Emily Martin（芮馬丁），紐約大學(xué)人類學(xué)系榮休教授

'Li Zhang always has her finger on the pulse of key transformations in contemporary Chinese culture and society. This insightful and moving ethnography is not a narrative about the emergence of an individualistic self in China. Rather, Zhang offers a nuanced analysis of popular psy fever in what she calls the anxious times of rapid transformations in China, linking an inner revolution of self-care to a reshaped sociality and governance.'

——Lisa Rofel（羅麗莎），加州大學(xué)圣克魯茲分校人類學(xué)系教授