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Taoism and Chinese Religion

Breathing Spaces

Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

by Nancy N. Chen

An anthropological study of the qigong boom in post-Mao China and its relationship with psychiatry. Chen examines qigong healers, the diagnosis of qigong-related mental disorders and the state's changing response to the movement.

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