China

Socialism

Cultural Anthroplogy has published several essays that address both the subject of socialism and the ethnographic processes of change and adaptation associated with postsocialism. As the year 1989 represents the juncture wherein socialism moved from the state of actually existing to existing in the past sense, this list goes roughly back to that date.

Biopolitical Beijing: Pleasure, Sovereignty and Self-Cultivation in China's Capital

“Biopolitical Beijing: Pleasure, Sovereignty and Self-Cultivation in China's Capital”

Judith Farquhar, Professor
Anthropology, University of Chicago

Zhang Qicheng, Professor
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

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China and Tibet


Fluid Labor and Blood Money: The Economy of HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China
SHAO Jing
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4: 535-569.

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