Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.

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Xinyin Chen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Huihua Deng, Southeast University, USA Harriet Evans, University of Westminster, USA Vanessa L. Fong, Harvard University, USA Sung won Kim, Harvard University, USA Hyeon Jung Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Delia Lin, The University of Adelaide, Australia Zuhong Lu, Southeast University, USA Zhiying Ma, University of Chicago, USA Wanning Sun, University of Technology, Australia Ling-Yun Tang, University of Hong Kong Niobe Way, New York University, USA Emily Wilcox, The College of William and Mary, USA Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University, USA Cong Zhang, Harvard University, USA

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Introduction: Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche; Andrew B. Kipnis PART I: CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND SENSES OF SELF 1. Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China; Ling-Yun Tang 2. "Selling Out" Post Mao: Dance Labor and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China; Emily Wilcox 3. The Poetry of Spiritual Homelessness: A Creative Practice of Coping with Industrial Alienation; Wanning Sun PART II: FEMALE GENDER AND THE RELATIONAL PSYCHE 4. Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothers' Aspirations for their Toddler Daughters Future Independence and Excellence; Vanessa L. Fong, Cong Zhang, Sung won Kim, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen, Zuhong Lu and Huihua Deng 5. The Intimate Individual: Perspectives from the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Urban China; Harriet Evans 6. Modernization and Women's Fatalistic Suicide in Post-Mao Rural China: A Critique of Durkheim; Hyeon Jung Lee PART III: GOVERNING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA 7. Working to be Worthy: Shame and the Confucian Technology of Governing; Delia Lin 8. Private Lessons and National Formations: National Hierarchy and the Individual Psyche in the Marketing of Chinese Educational Programs; Andrew B. Kipnis 9. Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China; Zhiying Ma