Review of Jian Xu’s "Body, Discourse, and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Chinese Qigong"

Introduction

Jian Xu’s article, Body, Discourse, and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Chinese Qigong, published in The Journal of Asian Studies (1999), explores the socio-political dimensions of Qigong in modern China. Xu situates Qigong as a contested space of ideological struggle, examining how its discourse oscillates between scientific rationali…