Disability and Impairment in Early China

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Routledge
31 March 2025

Asian history; Social & cultural history; Disability: social aspects; History of medicine; History of science

Series: Needham Research Institute Series

This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.

Early Chinese understandings of disability are effectively revealed through investigations of a wide range of aspects, such as terminological, legal, political, and etiological. The volume explores how early Chinese disability was socially negotiated as a means for creating enabled and at times empowered identities. It shows how oppression and empowerment, when viewed through the prism of such negotiations of identity, were not mutually exclusive. Through such examinations, the volume demonstrates how an approach sensitive to both the separability and the interconnectedness of disability and impairment enables a more nuanced understanding of Chinese disability history specifically, and Chinese notions of embodiment more generally.

Bringing together international academics to examine a plethora of topics relating to disability and bodily impairment in early Chinese history, with an eye on their socio-political implications, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese History, History of Medicine, and Disability Studies.

Edited by: Avital H. Rom
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781032255194
ISBN 10: 1032255196
Series: Needham Research Institute Series
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 31 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Disability in and Around Court 1. Accounting for the disabled in early China: A Review of the Terminology Used to Describe and Define Disability 2. 'Disability’ in the Laws of Early and Middle Period China 3. Entangled Bodies and the Birth of a Disabled King 4. Etiologies of Perceptual Impairment and the Responsibilities of Rulership Part 2: Mind the Body: Disabling Impairment 5. Ambiguities of Blindness in Early China: Respected ‘Blind Musicians’ (Gu) Versus Pitied ‘Visually Disabled People’ (Gu/Mang) 6. Sound Minds: Deafness and Deaf Metaphors in Early Chinese Texts 7. Three Views of Kuang (Madness) in Early Chinese Thought 8. Records of Dementia and Brain Damage (Kuang 狂) in Early and Medieval China Part 3: Negotiating Identities: Enabling Impairment 9. Empowering Mutilations: Political Aspects of Disability in Early China 10. Deviant and Defiant Bodies in Early China: the Case of the Hunched Zhili Shu 11. Dwarfs in Early China

Avital H. Rom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

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