‘For the sake of mianzi, everything can be sacrificed’
By Shao-hua Liu; translated by Liang-Wei Huang For decades now, my research has been concerned with the prevention and control...
Shao-hua Liu is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include medical anthropology, globalization, modernity, gender, and rural health and medicine in contemporary China. She is the author of the books: The Anthropology Living in My Eyes and Blood (Chunshan Chubanshe, 2019); Leprosy Doctors in China’s Post-Imperial Experimentation: Metaphors of a Disease and Its Control (Weicheng Chubanshe, 2018); and Passage to Manhood: Heroin, AIDS, and Youth Migration in Southwest China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2010).
By Shao-hua Liu; translated by Liang-Wei Huang For decades now, my research has been concerned with the prevention and control...
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