Hood, Johanna
(2012)
Hiv/aids And Shifting Urban China's Sociomoral Landscape: Engendering Bio-activism
And Resistance Through Stories Of Suffering.
International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 8 (1).
pp. 126-144.
ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243
Abstract
In this article, I address the lack of research in current scholarship on the impacts
China's changing media is having on those who consume messages about HIV
and AIDS, and on the political, social, celebrity and corporate activism which
have resulted from the improved circulation of knowledge about the virus in
society. To do so, I position current ways of understanding the virus, its
marketability and the myriad activism that knowledge of the virus encourages, in
light of the impact that initial knowledge of HIV and AIDS sufferers in China had
when introduced to the general, urban public. I first discuss the fragmented
history of the virus in telling AIDS in China. I then turn to the changes in Chinese
society, politics, economy and legal fields which followed the media's sudden
publication of stories about HIV/AIDS within the country. I argue that the media's
introduction of Chinese "AIDS sufferers" (aizibing huanzhe) through local stories
of extreme suffering were critical to the broad-based changes and sustained
successful bio-activism that followed their publication.
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