Article ID: CBB542140674

“Hotbeds of Psychopathology”: Psy Sciences and the Critique of the Family in Republican China (2022)

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Wang, Wenji (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 387-407
Publication date: 2022
Language: English


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Special Issue: Challenging and Reinvigorating China’s “Mr. Science”: Global History, Science and Democracy, Universality without Eurocentrism, and Beyond

From the mid-19th century to the first few decades of the 20th century, the critique of traditional families in China gained momentum from various sources. Apart from its social, political, and feminist critiques, different forms of family were subjected to psychiatric and psychological analyses. Historians have underlined the historical contexts in which the family became the subject of medical and psychiatric attention. However, the ways in which families were conceptualized in Republican China as the cause of mental and emotional disorders have yet to be clarified systematically. By focusing on psychiatric and psychological discussions of the dysfunction of families and society and its impact on mental health, the current work looks into the ways in which Chinese psy scientists interpreted Western theories and Chinese social reality in connection with the contemporary debates about national reform and scientific modernity. The present study shows that, while firmly believing in scientific professionalism, these psy experts were keen followers of May Fourth radicals in problematizing traditional morality and social structure and proposing new methods of self-management.

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Article Victor Seow; Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (2022) Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter?. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 269-278). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Campos Marín, Ricardo
Cicciola, Elisabetta
Doyle, Dennis
Friedman, Lawrence Jacob
Li, Xin
Molina, Andrés Ríos
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Environmental History
History of Psychology
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Gewina
History of Science
Publishers
Columbia University Press
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Fefè Editore
Ediciones Dado
Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychology
Mental disorders and diseases
Science and society
Mental hygiene
Science and State
People
Mao, Zedong
Binet, Alfred
Fromm, Erich
Bernard, Viola W
Zhu, Kezhen
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
China
Peru
Brazil
Great Britain
India
France
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