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Published on: May 15, 2016
Madness and disability in contemporary Chinese film
1Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA. dsknight@email.smith.edu
Abstract:
This article draws on recent research in the medical humanities to analyze two contemporary Chinese films: Zhang Yuan's Sons (1996) and Zhou Xiaowen's The Common People (1998). By portraying psychic and physical anguish in ways that refuse to divorce biology from culture, such films offer rare moral dialogues on biomedical issues and contribute a cross-cultural perspective invaluable to the task of responding to illness and suffering.
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