Social Inscription of Sexualities in an Era of AIDS 1

• Main Author: Evelyne Micollier
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Avian flu
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.413.344; http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/43/96/97/PDF/micollier.sexconf.pdf

Contemporary Chinese society provides several socially pre-constructed models of representations and practices that interact to produce tensions that must be managed, and values, behaviour and actions are subject to renegotiation: the first system arises from pluralist and dynamic Chinese tradition (local traditional discourse), the second is twofolded—one was inherited from the 1919 intellectual and reform movement in the historical context of the fall of the Empire and the first republican revolution (1911), the other was introduced by Marxist ideology and nurtured the project to construct a socialist society (official discourse); the third reflects the global model that is producing changes in China just as it is elsewhere (local global or ‘glocalised ’ discourse). Except the first model, the others are broad projects of modernization of the Chinese society as well. As in other Asian developing countries, the AIDS epidemic was denied for more than a decade (1985-1996) by the Chinese authorities and not publicly acknowledged as a major epidemic until 2001 (Gill, Okie, 2007). From 2003, economical stakes related to SARS and Avian flu epidemic risk succeeded in mobilising official actors, prompting their actions and rising their awareness about epidemic risk from infectious diseases including AIDS