Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in Chinese Studies
The Perils and Possibilities of Disabled People and Academics
I'm trying to think about the ways in which we can understand these seemingly contradictory and complex things that are going on underneath everything. And it's not, there isn't a consistent narrative that everybody is understanding. But what I'm hoping is that taking the learnings from the social model and the human rights model and all of these other models that are actually working to ensure people have rights as well as responsibilities. In the Chinese case has proven there are a lot more responsibilities than rights at the moment. That spectrum, China will move along that spectrum so that disabled people are granted more rights without the responsibilities that come with them. So yeah, I think I think there are pearls and possibilities,
