Hsuan-Ying Huang is a medical anthropologist with training in psychiatry. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Education and the Institute of Public Health at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. His research has examined the transformation of psychic life and mental healthcare in urban China through a range of emerging phenomena, including the post–Wenchuan earthquake psychotherapy boom, the rise of digital mental health amid the startup frenzy, and, more recently, the increasingly fraught emotional landscape of youth.
‘Political depression’ (政治性抑郁), first introduced into Chinese online discourse in the summer of 2019, is a term that gained wide circulation during the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, it was associated with anger and despair at the authorities’ mishandling of the Wuhan outbreak and its rapid slide out of control. Later in the prolonged crisis, it […]
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