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Passage to Manhood - Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China (Paperback)
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Passage to Manhood - Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China (Paperback)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin
use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage
among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China.
Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this book seeks
to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately large number of
opiate users and HIV positive individuals relative to others in
Sichuan. By focusing on the experiences of Nuosu migrants and drug
users, it shows how multiple modernities, individual yearnings, and
societal resilience have become entwined in the Nuosu's calamitous
encounter with the Chinese state and, after long suppression, their
efforts at cultural reconstruction. This ethnography pits the Nuosu
youths' adventures, as part of their passage to manhood, against
the drastic social changes in their community and, more broadly,
China over the last half century. It offers fascinating material
for courses on migration, globalization, youth culture, public
health, and development at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
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