Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19697920095135 EAN: 9780520247154 ISBN: 0520247159 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 290 Publication Date: 2007-01-16 Publisher: University of California Press Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Reviews: Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary. Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A trip on China and AIDS Comment: Spring rice reports on the history of HIV in China. Data I just read indicates that the HIV epidemic is correlated with dirty needle use : IVDU or blood plasma donation. In some provinces up to 60% of former blood donnors, mostly peasants, have HIV! Intravenous drug use brought HIV in China, but the spread into the general population was via unsafe blood plasma donations (not transfusions. The book reads like a novel, as well. Another book "Points to Consider" of David Gisselquist review the facility with which HIV spread in Africa via dirty care. "Eating spring rice" quotes Chinese local officials estimates of up to a million or more cases from dirty blood collection. Today, after talks at high level, the figures now stand at 50 000..... More Reviews