ABSTRACT
When HIV arrived in China in the wake of Deng Xiaoping’s opening reforms, it quickly evolved into a matter far more complex than a fast-spreading sanitary emergency. A public health crisis that currently involves between 550,000 and 1,400,000 HIV-positive people, 1 HIV/AIDS has, over the years, become a dense discursive field where the key anxieties and ambitions of post-Maoist China become articulated.
