Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Introduction, Vivienne Lo, Chris Berry and Guo Liping 

Part 1: Cross Cultural Histories of the Body and its Care 

1. Dead or Alive: Martial Arts and The Forensic Gaze, Vivienne Lo 

2. How to be a Good Maoist Doctor: Wuyingdeng xia song yinzhen ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (An Ode to the Silver Needle Under a Shadowless Lamp, 1974), Leon Antonio Rocha 

3. Self-Care, Yangsheng and Mutual Aid in Zhang Yang’s Shower (Xizao ¿¿ (1999), Michael J Clark 

4. Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire, Derek Hird 

Part 2: Film and the Public Sphere 

5. The Fever with No Name: Genre-blending Responses to the HIV-tainted Blood Scandal in 1990’s China, Marta Hanson 

6. Fortune Teller: The Visible and Invisible, Lili Lai 

7. Longing for the Rain: Journeys into the Dislocated Female Body of Urban China, Vivienne Lo and Serenity Nashuyuan Wang 

Part 3: Improving the Education and Training of Health Professionals 

8. The Gigantic Black Citadel: Design of Death and Medical Humanities Pedagogy in China, Guo Liping 

9. Blind Massage: Sense and Sensuality, Chris Berry 

10. Cinemeducation and Disability: An Undergraduate Special Study Module for Medical Students in China, Daniel Vuillermin 

Part 4: Transforming Self-health Care in the Digital Age 

11. Raising Awareness about Anti-microbial Resistance: a Nationwide Video and Arts Competition for Chinese University Students using Social Media, Therese Hesketh, Zhou Xudong and Wang Xiaomin 

12. Queer Comrades: Digital Video Documentary and LGBTQ Health Activism in China. Hongwei Bao 

13. Recovering from Mental Illness and Suicidal Behaviour in a Culturally Diverse Context: The Use of Digital Storytelling in Cross-cultural Medical Humanities and Mental Health, Erminia Colucci and Susan McDonough 

14. Food-related Yangsheng Short Videos among the Retired Population in Shanghai, Xinyuan Wang and Vivienne Lo

Biography

Vivienne Lo is a Senior Lecturer and the convenor of the UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity, UK. Vivienne's core research concerns the social and cultural origins of acupuncture, therapeutic exercise, and food and medicine.

Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London, UK. He researches Chinese-language cinemas and other Chinese-language screen-based media.

Guo Liping is Professor of English and Vice Dean in the School of Health Humanities, Peking University, China. Her research interests include narrative medicine and medical humanities education.

"This collection of film studies brings together the creative work of China’s most talented filmmakers as they reflect on contemporary social problems, work out in narratives and images an original analysis of what’s wrong with us (as individuals, as a society, and in cultural settings), and as they propose paths to redemption."

Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago