Reporting mental illness in China /
This book examines how Chinese language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, even that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness. By assessing how the reporting in three leading broads...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021]
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| Series: | Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series ;
v. 19. |
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| Summary: | This book examines how Chinese language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, even that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness. By assessing how the reporting in three leading broadsheet newspapers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan constructs the illness, the book considers how the distinct social and political histories of the three culturally Chinese communities shape the reporting, and whether it bears out or contests the intense stigma against the illness that prevails locally. The findings can usefully encourage and inform attempts to humanize, include and empower those with a severe mental illness across greater China and the global Chinese diaspora. Employing a well-tested, transparent discourse analytic approach, the book also includes numerous Chinese-English bilingual news report extracts to illustrate its claims. As such, Report Mental Illness in China will be of interest to Sinologists, discourse analysts, mental health professionals and public health authorities across the globe, especially in places where there are large Chinese-speaking populations. |
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| Physical Description: | 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367540906 0367540908 9780367549954 0367549956 |