{"product_id":"the-impotence-epidemic-mens-medicine-and-sexual-desire-in-contemporary-china-9780822358442","title":"The Impotence Epidemic: Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Everett Yuehong Zhang\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Yuehong Zhang argues in \u003ci\u003eThe Impotence Epidemic\u003c\/i\u003e that this trend represents changing public attitudes about sexuality in an increasingly globalized China. In this ethnography he shifts discussions of impotence as a purely neurovascular phenomenon to a social one. Zhang contextualizes impotence within the social changes brought by recent economic reform and through the production of various desires in post-Maoist China. Based on interviews with 350 men and their partners from Beijing and Chengdu, and concerned with de-mystifying and de-stigmatizing impotence, Zhang suggests that the impotence epidemic represents not just trauma and suffering, but also a contagion of individualized desire and an affirmation for living a full life. For Zhang, studying male impotence in China is one way to comprehend the unique experience of Chinese modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47813358485655,"sku":"9780822358442","price":12103.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822358442.webp?v=1778335404","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-impotence-epidemic-mens-medicine-and-sexual-desire-in-contemporary-china-9780822358442","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}