Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering
In this article, I address the lack of research in current scholarship on the impacts China's changing media is having on those who consume messages about HIV and AIDS, and on the political, social, celebrity and corporate activism which have resulted from the improved circulation of knowled...
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| description | In this article, I address the lack of research in current scholarship on the impacts
China's changing media is having on those who consume messages about HIV
and AIDS, and on the political, social, celebrity and corporate activism which
have resulted from the improved circulation of knowledge about the virus in
society. To do so, I position current ways of understanding the virus, its
marketability and the myriad activism that knowledge of the virus encourages, in
light of the impact that initial knowledge of HIV and AIDS sufferers in China had
when introduced to the general, urban public. I first discuss the fragmented
history of the virus in telling AIDS in China. I then turn to the changes in Chinese
society, politics, economy and legal fields which followed the media's sudden
publication of stories about HIV/AIDS within the country. I argue that the media's
introduction of Chinese "AIDS sufferers" (aizibing huanzhe) through local stories
of extreme suffering were critical to the broad-based changes and sustained
successful bio-activism that followed their publication. |
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| spelling | usm-405522018-05-23T07:13:22Z http://eprints.usm.my/40552/ Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering Hood, Johanna P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) In this article, I address the lack of research in current scholarship on the impacts China's changing media is having on those who consume messages about HIV and AIDS, and on the political, social, celebrity and corporate activism which have resulted from the improved circulation of knowledge about the virus in society. To do so, I position current ways of understanding the virus, its marketability and the myriad activism that knowledge of the virus encourages, in light of the impact that initial knowledge of HIV and AIDS sufferers in China had when introduced to the general, urban public. I first discuss the fragmented history of the virus in telling AIDS in China. I then turn to the changes in Chinese society, politics, economy and legal fields which followed the media's sudden publication of stories about HIV/AIDS within the country. I argue that the media's introduction of Chinese "AIDS sufferers" (aizibing huanzhe) through local stories of extreme suffering were critical to the broad-based changes and sustained successful bio-activism that followed their publication. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40552/1/JohannaHood-HIV-AIDS-Urban-China.pdf Hood, Johanna (2012) Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 8 (1). pp. 126-144. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/JohannaHood-HIV-AIDS-Urban-China.pdf |
| spellingShingle | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Hood, Johanna Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering |
| title | Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism
And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering |
| title_full | Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism
And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering |
| title_fullStr | Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism
And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism
And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering |
| title_short | Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism
And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering |
| title_sort | hiv/aids and shifting urban china's sociomoral landscape: engendering bio-activism
and resistance through stories of suffering |
| topic | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/40552/ http://eprints.usm.my/40552/ http://eprints.usm.my/40552/1/JohannaHood-HIV-AIDS-Urban-China.pdf |