Download or read book The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China written by C. Lynteris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.