{"product_id":"the-invention-of-madness-emily-baum-9780226580616","title":"The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China","description":"Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which \"madness\" was transformed in the Chinese imagination into \"mental illness.\" \u003cbr\u003e ​ \u003cbr\u003e Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Madness \u003c\/i\u003eshifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Madness \u003c\/i\u003eis an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Baum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022658061X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226580616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Emily Baum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086418325759,"sku":"9780226580616","price":121.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc386975-2670-44ca-af93-6a5b92c8021a.jpg?v=1769094560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invention-of-madness-emily-baum-9780226580616","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}