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Author : Charles Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134404018
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Charles Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134404001
First Published in 2004. Separation – for example the process of leaving behind, temporarily or permanently, individuals to whom we are attached – is something experienced by humans in all societies. In the case of China, the rituals and practices associated with separation – and with its corollary, reunion – are especially elaborate. They are crucial elements within the Chinese cultural tradition. In addressing – through the use of case studies – the central theme of separation, this book also provides a good general introduction to many of the classic debates within anthropological and historical analyses of China. It will, therefore, prove an interesting and useful resource to students of Asian studies and anthropology as well as the general reader with an interest in the Chinese cultural tradition.
Author : Charles Stafford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521784344
Rituals concerning separation and reunion and their impact on Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture.
Author : Susanne Brandtstädter,Gonçalo D Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134105878
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice-versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material from the late imperial period and from contemporary Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, from northern and southern regions as well as from rural and urban settings, the volume provides unique insights into the historical and spatial diversities of the Chinese kinship experience. This emphasis on diversity challenges the classic ‘lineage paradigm’ of Chinese kinship and establishes a dialogue with contemporary anthropological debates about human kinship reflecting on the emergence of radically new family formations in the Euro-American context. Chinese Kinship will be of interest to anthropologists and sinologists, as to historians and social scientists in general.
Author : Harriet Evans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461645726
Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.
Author : Robin D. S. Yates
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004176225
This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive "index," of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, especially those published in the last thirty years, and more than 100 titles of doctoral dissertations and Masters theses, it covers works written in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; art and archaeology; demography; economics; education; fashion; film and media studies; history; interdisciplinary studies; law; literature; music; medicine, science, and technology; political science; and religion and philosophy. It also contains many citations of studies of women in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Author : Charles Stafford,Ellen R. Judd,Eona Bell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350077201
When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation. The editors present a wide range of vivid anthropological case-studies focused on everyday cooperation in Chinese communities, for example, between children in Nanjing playing a ballgame; parents in Edinburgh organising a community school; villagers in Yunnan dealing with "common pool" resource problems; and families in Kinmen in Taiwan worshipping their dead together. On the one hand, these case studies illustrate some uniquely Chinese cultural factors, such as those related to kinship ideals and institutions that shape the experience and practice of cooperation. They also illustrate, on the other hand, how China's recent history, not least the rise and fall of collectivism in various forms, continues to shape the experience of cooperation for ordinary people in China today. Finally, they show that in spite of the cultural and historical particularity of Chinese cooperation, it does share some underlying features that would be familiar to people coming from radically different backgrounds.
Author : Ellen Oxfeld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520260955
"Drink Water, But Remember the Source is a lively and readable ethnography that will reshape our understanding of moral discourse in the Chinese countryside. Oxfeld greatly improves upon the usual claims that China is losing all forms of communal morality by illustrating the multiplicity of views refracted through concrete events."—Robert P. Weller, Boston University
Author : Rita Astuti,Jonathan Parry,Charles Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183870
Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today.
Author : Zhuqing Li
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393541786
A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.
Author : Xiying Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781351691666
When (imaginary) cheating happens -- Cyber-stalking -- Cold war -- Emotional blackmail -- Punishment or opportunity? -- Making use of the role of 'victims' -- The trap of 'one and only' love -- One-child policy and revised parental influence -- Women's competition vs. men's expectations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Virginity loss, sexual coercion, and the unfinished sexual revolution -- A 'typical' story of date rape -- Performing the traditional: active 'gatekeepers' -- Virginity loss: uncomfortable, unpleasant, and unwanted -- Pain, pregnancy, and abortion -- Gender-asymmetric modes of mutual violence -- Lacking voice, lacking space -- Happy to be non-virgins -- Unfinished sexual revolution -- Conclusion -- Note -- 6. Remapping the landscape of dating, gender, and violence -- Remapping dating violence -- Transformation of dating, gender, and sexuality -- Construction of Chinese intersectionality -- Methods: Researching a sensitive topic -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Wang Pan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317688839
As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese--foreign marriages have profound implications for China’s cultural identity. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the different types of Chinese--foreign marriage, and divorce, and the changing scale and changing patterns of such marriages, and divorces, and examines how such marriages and divorces are portrayed in different kinds of media. It shows how those types of Chinese--foreign marriage where Chinese patriotism and Chinese values are preserved are depicted favourably, whereas other kinds of Chinese--foreign marriage, especially those where Chinese women marry foreign nationals, are disapproved of, male foreign nationals being seen as having a propensity to infidelity, deception, violence and taking advantage of Chinese women. The book contrasts the portrayal of Chinese--foreign marriage with the reality, and with the depiction of Chinese--Chinese marriage where many of the same problems apply. Overall, the book sheds much light on changing social processes and on current imaginings of China’s place in the world.
Author : Wilson
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781480845824
This book explores what its like living in contemporary China with extended essays on how the country has changed over the years. The author Wilson, a successful businessman in China, starts off by exploring the countrys technological shifts. It focuses on how to succeed in China, sharing why we must pay attention to the right information from reputable sources, why we must take a relative balance between demands and supply during economic development through supply-side structural reform, why we should review our personal situation to achieve a better life, and why investing time and effort on developing deep friendship is so worthwhile. Move beyond the superficial by focusing on self-cultivation, family governance, entrepreneurship, and national development. It starts with the lessons in Live in Contemporary China.
Author : Günseli Berik,Xiao-yuan Dong,Gale Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317989394
China’s joining the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the country’s global integration after two decades of economic reforms that have fundamentally transformed the economic organization of China. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore women’s well-being relative to men’s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status and labor rights, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist Economics, the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). All contributions have been subjected to the journal's rigorous peer review process and comply with the journal's editorial policies, as overseen by the editor, Diana Strassmann, and the journal's editorial team, including the associate editors, the editorial board, numerous volunteer reviewers, and the journal's in-house editorial staff and freelance style editors. The special issue and book have been made possible by the generous financial support of Rice University and the Ford Foundation-Beijing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814471992