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BL
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891926
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Breathing spaces : : qigong, psychiatry, and healing in China /\ Nancy N. Chen.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0231128053
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: 9780231128056
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0231128045
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9780231128049
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Exercise therapy.
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Psychiatry.
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Qi gong-- Political aspects.
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Qi gong-- Social aspects.
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Qi gong.
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Psychiatrie.
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Qi gong-- Aspect politique.
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Qi gong-- Aspect social.
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Qi gong.
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Thérapeutique par l'exercice.
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Exercise therapy.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Aerobics.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Exercise.
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Psychiatry.
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Qi gong.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.
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China.
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| Dewey Classification
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613.7/1
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| LC Classification
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RA781.8.B73 2003eb
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2003 I-507
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WB 541C518b 2003
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| Added Entry
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Chen, Nancy N.
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| Parallel Title
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Qigong, psychiatry, and healing in China
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