Disability and Impairment in Early China
eBook - ePub

Disability and Impairment in Early China

Other Bodies

  1. 356 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Disability and Impairment in Early China

Other Bodies

About this book

This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.

Early Chinese understandings of disability are effectively revealed through investigations of a wide range of aspects, such as terminological, legal, political, and etiological. The volume explores how early Chinese disability was socially negotiated as a means for creating enabled and at times empowered identities. It shows how oppression and empowerment, when viewed through the prism of such negotiations of identity, were not mutually exclusive. Through such examinations, the volume demonstrates how an approach sensitive to both the separability and the interconnectedness of disability and impairment enables a more nuanced understanding of Chinese disability history specifically, and Chinese notions of embodiment more generally.

Bringing together international academics to examine a plethora of topics relating to disability and bodily impairment in early Chinese history, with an eye on their socio-political implications, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese History, History of Medicine, and Disability Studies.

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Yes, you can access Disability and Impairment in Early China by Avital H. Rom in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040323052
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. A Note on Textual Sources, and a Note on Terminology
  10. Introduction: Other Bodies: Disability and Impairment in Early China
  11. Part I Conceptualizing Disability in and around Court
  12. Part II Mind the Body: Disabling Impairment
  13. Part III Negotiating Identities: Enabling Impairment
  14. Index