Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.4 "Anxious China”: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

DATE: April 16, 2021 (Friday)
TIME: 9:00am (HK)/ 10am (Tokyo)
(US Time Zones: Thursday 15 April @ 6pm PDT / 8pm CDT / 9pm EDT)

seminar posterAbstract:

In Anxious China (University of California Press 2020), Li Zhang examines the rise of psychotherapy in contemporary China. 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 account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, social relations, and modes of governing in the 21st century. Experts working on mental health in various contexts around the world (including China, Japan, Brazil, Russia, and the U.S.) will join Professor Zhang for this Zoom book forum.

Speaker: Li Zhang (Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis)

Discussants:

  • Dominique Béhague (Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University and King's College London)
  • Nancy N. Chen (Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Junko Kitanaka (Professor, Keio University, Tokyo)
  • Rebecca Lester (Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Zhiying Ma (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)
  • Tomas Matza (Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh)

Moderator:

  • Priscilla Song (Associate Professor, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, HKU)

Co-hosted by:

  • Faculty of Arts (Centre for the Humanities and Medicine & Centre for the Study of Globalization and Culture)
  • Faculty of Medicine (Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit)
  • Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Sociology & Contemporary China Research Cluster)
  • HKU Anthropology Research Network

All are welcome, please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=74217. This event will be conducted via zoom. The link shall be given the day before the event.

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