Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of
men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Yuehong Zhang argues
in The Impotence Epidemic 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.
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