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Disability and Impairment in Early China: Other Bodies book cover

1st Edition

Disability and Impairment in Early China Other Bodies

Edited By Avital H. Rom Copyright 2025
306 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history. Early Chinese understandings of disability are effectively revealed through investigations of a wide range of aspects, such as terminological, legal, political, and etiological. The volume explores how early Chinese disability was socially negotiated as a means... Read more

Introduction: Other Bodies: Disability and Impairment in Early China

Avital H. Rom

Part 1: Conceptualizing Disability in and around Court

1. Accounting for the Disabled in Early China: A Review of the Terminology Used to Describe and Define Disability

Mark Gerald Pitner

2. "Disability" in the Laws of Early and Middle Period China

Robin D.S. Yates

3. Entangled Bodies and the Birth of a Disabled King

Sharon Sanderovitch

4. Etiologies of Perceptual Impairment and the Duties of Rulership

Jesse Chapman

Part 2: Mind the Body: Disabling Impairment

5. Ambiguities of Blindness in Early China: Respected ‘Blind Musicians’ (Gu) Versus Pitied ‘Visually Disabled People’ (Gu/Mang)

Uffe Bergeton

6. Sound Minds: Deafness and Deaf Metaphors in Early Chinese Texts

Avital H. Rom

7. Three Views of Kuang (Madness) in Early Chinese Thought

Alexus McLeod

8. Records of Dementia and Brain Damage (Kuang 狂) in Early and Medieval China

Olivia Milburn           

Part 3: Negotiating Identities: Enabling Impairment

9. Empowering Mutilations: Political Aspects of Disability in Early China

Michael Hoeckelmann

10. Deviant and Defiant Bodies in Early China: The Case of the Hunched Zhili Shu

Albert Galvany

11. Dwarfs in Early China

Leslie V. Wallace

Biography

Avital H. Rom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

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