
Published online:
24 May 2012
Published in print:
23 May 2005
Online ISBN:
9780520935563
Print ISBN:
9780520226449
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Terms of Engagement Terms of Engagement
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Earlier Eras of Enumeration Earlier Eras of Enumeration
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The Maoist Era in Brief The Maoist Era in Brief
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Post-Mao Enumeration: the 1987 National Sample Survey Post-Mao Enumeration: the 1987 National Sample Survey
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Preparing and Launching the Survey Preparing and Launching the Survey
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State Subjects State Subjects
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Cite
Kohrman, Matthew, 'Why Ma Zhun Doesn't Count', Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China (Oakland, CA , 2005; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520226449.003.0005, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter considers the case of Ma Zhun, a woman who was denied a disabled identification (ID) card by the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF). It explains that Ma Zhun went the Federation's office because she was told by her employer that getting an ID card was her only chance of keeping her job and that her request was denied because she was only missing toes on one foot. The chapter examines the CDPF's formulation of a set of truth claims about what comprises canji as a distinct sphere of alterity and about what constitutes China as a distinct national locality.
Subject
Medical Anthropology
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