Zhiying Ma is Assistant Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Constructing Families, Contesting Paternalisms  292. Hospitalization, Risks, and Familial Commitments  513. Kinship and Its Limits amid Serious Mental Illness  694. Biopolitical Paternalism and its Maternal Supplements in Community Mental Health  875. Determining Risks and Responsibilities Under the Mental Health Law  1116. Suffering, Sociality, and Citizenship Among Family Caregivers  133Conclusion  155Notes  165References  173Index  193

“In this fascinating and moving ethnographic examination of the management of severe mental illness in contemporary China, Zhiying Ma shows not only how the lessons of psychiatric care can apply to other types of biopolitical management in China, but how these lessons apply elsewhere throughout the world. Between Families and Institutions is one of the best books I have read in a while.” - Katherine A. Mason, author of (Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic) “Offering a highly sophisticated and multidimensional account of how mental illness is treated, managed, and lived, Zhiying Ma shows how the predominating logic of risk in postsocialist Chinese psychiatry and governance overrides any meaningful ethics of care, leaving family members to absorb and make up for deficiencies of institutional care and support. Within the anthropology of China, there is virtually no existing study of this kind. This outstanding book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of China as well as social science approaches to mental health.” - Teresa Kuan, author of (Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China)

Zhiying Ma is Assistant Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Constructing Families, Contesting Paternalisms  292. Hospitalization, Risks, and Familial Commitments  513. Kinship and Its Limits amid Serious Mental Illness  694. Biopolitical Paternalism and its Maternal Supplements in Community Mental Health  875. Determining Risks and Responsibilities Under the Mental Health Law  1116. Suffering, Sociality, and Citizenship Among Family Caregivers  133Conclusion  155Notes  165References  173Index  193

“In this fascinating and moving ethnographic examination of the management of severe mental illness in contemporary China, Zhiying Ma shows not only how the lessons of psychiatric care can apply to other types of biopolitical management in China, but how these lessons apply elsewhere throughout the world. Between Families and Institutions is one of the best books I have read in a while.” - Katherine A. Mason, author of (Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic) “Offering a highly sophisticated and multidimensional account of how mental illness is treated, managed, and lived, Zhiying Ma shows how the predominating logic of risk in postsocialist Chinese psychiatry and governance overrides any meaningful ethics of care, leaving family members to absorb and make up for deficiencies of institutional care and support. Within the anthropology of China, there is virtually no existing study of this kind. This outstanding book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of China as well as social science approaches to mental health.” - Teresa Kuan, author of (Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China)

Zhiying Ma is Assistant Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Constructing Families, Contesting Paternalisms  292. Hospitalization, Risks, and Familial Commitments  513. Kinship and Its Limits amid Serious Mental Illness  694. Biopolitical Paternalism and its Maternal Supplements in Community Mental Health  875. Determining Risks and Responsibilities Under the Mental Health Law  1116. Suffering, Sociality, and Citizenship Among Family Caregivers  133Conclusion  155Notes  165References  173Index  193

“In this fascinating and moving ethnographic examination of the management of severe mental illness in contemporary China, Zhiying Ma shows not only how the lessons of psychiatric care can apply to other types of biopolitical management in China, but how these lessons apply elsewhere throughout the world. Between Families and Institutions is one of the best books I have read in a while.” - Katherine A. Mason, author of (Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic) “Offering a highly sophisticated and multidimensional account of how mental illness is treated, managed, and lived, Zhiying Ma shows how the predominating logic of risk in postsocialist Chinese psychiatry and governance overrides any meaningful ethics of care, leaving family members to absorb and make up for deficiencies of institutional care and support. Within the anthropology of China, there is virtually no existing study of this kind. This outstanding book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of China as well as social science approaches to mental health.” - Teresa Kuan, author of (Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China)