Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese
people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical
anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman,
Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei,
and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of
personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of
Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral
person during China's profound social and economic transformation,
unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.