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Eating Spring Rice is 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-LГјe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions

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Author

Sandra Teresa Hyde

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520247154

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Medical, Social Science

Rating

3.47 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14