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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

Author: Pheng Cheah

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Fever	35
3	Riding the Tiger	61
4	Qigong Deviation or Psychosis	77
5	Chinese Psychiatry and the Search for Order	107
6	Mandate of Science	139
7	Transnational Qigong	159
8	Suffering and Healing	185
	Glossary	189
	Notes	193
	Bibliography	199
	Index	233

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