Reporting Mental Illness in China

ISBN-13: 9780367540906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 182 str.

Guy Ramsay

Opis

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, iven that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Comparative settings, newspapers, reports, and themes  3. Severe mental illness as crime and social wrongdoing  4. Life stories of severe mental illness  5. The establishment and severe mental illness  6. Conclusion - Reporting mental illness in China

O autorze

Guy Ramsay is a senior lecturer in Chinese language and studies at The University of Queensland in Australia. His expertise is discourse analysis in mental illness and related disorders in China and the Chinese diaspora. He published Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction (Routledge) in 2016.