Eating Spring Rice

by Hyde, Sandra Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780520247147
• ISBN10: 0520247140
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-16
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Eating Spring Riceis the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary. Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Luuml;e, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Notes on Transliteration	p. xix
Introduction: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Postreform China	p. 1
Narratives of the State
The Aesthetics of Statistics	p. 37
Everyday AIDS Practices: Risky Bodies and Contested Borders	p. 75
Narratives of Jinghong, Sipsongpanna
Sex Tourism and Performing Ethnicity in Jinghong	p. 105
Eating Spring Rice: Transactional Sex in a Beauty Salon	p. 128
A Sexual Hydraulic: Commercial "Sex Workers" and Condoms	p. 150
Moral Economies of Sexuality	p. 169
Epilogue What Is to Be Done?	p. 193
Notes	p. 209
References	p. 231
Index	p. 257
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