Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China
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Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist ''New Man''? Using Foucault''s theory of ''technologies of the self'', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of ''socialist medicine''.
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Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist ''New Man''? Using Foucault''s theory of ''technologies of the self'', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of ''socialist medicine''.
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