Disability and Impairment in Early China (eBook, ePUB)

Other Bodies
Redaktion: Rom, Avital H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040323052
• Artikelnr.: 73634024

Autorenporträt

Avital H. Rom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Disability in and Around Court 1.
Accounting for the disabled in early China: A Review of the Terminology
Used to Describe and Define Disability 2. 'Disability' in the Laws of Early
and Middle Period China 3. Entangled Bodies and the Birth of a Disabled
King 4. Etiologies of Perceptual Impairment and the Responsibilities of
Rulership Part 2: Mind the Body: Disabling Impairment 5. Ambiguities of
Blindness in Early China: Respected 'Blind Musicians' (Gu) Versus Pitied
'Visually Disabled People' (Gu/Mang) 6. Sound Minds: Deafness and Deaf
Metaphors in Early Chinese Texts 7. Three Views of Kuang (Madness) in Early
Chinese Thought 8. Records of Dementia and Brain Damage (Kuang ¿) in Early
and Medieval China Part 3: Negotiating Identities: Enabling Impairment 9.
Empowering Mutilations: Political Aspects of Disability in Early China 10.
Deviant and Defiant Bodies in Early China: the Case of the Hunched Zhili
Shu 11. Dwarfs in Early China