Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)

Published February 7, 2011

Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)

ISBN13: 9780804770255
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Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this book seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately large number of opiate users and HIV positive individuals relative to others in Sichuan. By focusing on the experiences of Nuosu migrants and drug users, it shows how multiple modernities,

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