Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Culturing Psychotherapy, Transforming Selfhood in Urban China
Professor Li Zhang will talk about selfhood in urban China at the University of Washington.
Where
![](https://china.usc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/event_node_featured/public/events/featured-image/Li-Zhang-pic_0.jpg?itok=xzyD95YS)
Broadly speaking, Li Zhang's research concerns the social, political, and cultural repercussions of market reform and socialist transformations in contemporary China. Her earlier work traces the profound reconfigurations of space, power, and social networks within China's "floating population" under late socialism and globalization. Recently, she has completed her second book that examines the social and spatial implications of housing privatization and the making of the new middle classes in urban China. She has also co-edited a volume with Aihwa Ong, which explores how social technologies of privatization and neoliberalism articulate with diverse areas of life and politics in China. Her current new research project explores the "inner revolution" brought by the market transition through examining an emergent psychotherapy and psychological counseling movement in Chinese cities. She is interested in how Western psychological formulations of the person through talk therapy articulate with local cultural notions of a socially embedded self and neoliberal notions of self-management.
Featured Articles
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?