Marriage Gender And Sex In A Contemporary Chinese Village

Author : Sun-Pong Yuen,Pui-Lam Law,Yuk-Ying Ho,Fong-Ying Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317465089

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Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village by Sun-Pong Yuen,Pui-Lam Law,Yuk-Ying Ho,Fong-Ying Yu Pdf

This book explores changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes toward sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. The book is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996 and subsequent visits from 2000 to 2002. According to the authors, the rural economic reforms of the 1980s in southern China have challenged and reinforced the deep structure of Chinese familism and this has lead to tensions between tradition and modernity. The first section of the book explores how attitudes toward marriage and courtship have changed over the past fifty years through personal accounts of three different marriages from different generations. In Part II, the transition from a traditional to a modern society is discussed from the perspective of several women from different generations. The third section focuses on sexual relationships and the growing sex trade in the village. Part IV includes updates to the original survey and takes a look at village politics.

Author : Sun-Pong Yuen,Pui-Lam Law,Yuk-Ying Ho,Fong-Ying Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317465072

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Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village by Sun-Pong Yuen,Pui-Lam Law,Yuk-Ying Ho,Fong-Ying Yu Pdf

This book explores changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes toward sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. The book is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996 and subsequent visits from 2000 to 2002. According to the authors, the rural economic reforms of the 1980s in southern China have challenged and reinforced the deep structure of Chinese familism and this has lead to tensions between tradition and modernity. The first section of the book explores how attitudes toward marriage and courtship have changed over the past fifty years through personal accounts of three different marriages from different generations. In Part II, the transition from a traditional to a modern society is discussed from the perspective of several women from different generations. The third section focuses on sexual relationships and the growing sex trade in the village. Part IV includes updates to the original survey and takes a look at village politics.

Author : Edward Lawrence Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415777162

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture by Edward Lawrence Davis Pdf

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Susan L. Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502481

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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History by Susan L. Mann Pdf

Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann answers this by focusing on state policy, ideas about the physical body and notions of sexuality and difference in China's recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bars; from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity.

Author : Jieyu Liu,Junko Yamashita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317337331

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Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies by Jieyu Liu,Junko Yamashita Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes: theorising gender relations; women’s and feminist movements; work, care and migration; family and intergenerational relationships; cultural representation; masculinity; and state, militarism and gender. This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women’s Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814467148

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Reconstitution of Social Work by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xiaobing Li
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216118435

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Modern China by Xiaobing Li Pdf

Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China. In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not only comprehensive coverage of Chinese civilization and traditions, but also addressing the values, issues, and critical views of China. As a result, readers will better understand the transformative experience of the most populous country in the world, and will grasp the complexity of the progress and problems behind the rise of China to a world superpower in less than 30 years. Written by an author who lived in China for three decades, this encyclopedia addresses 16 key topics regarding China, such as its geography, government, social classes and ethnicities, gender-based identities, arts, media, and food, each followed by roughly 250 short entries related to each topic. All the entries are placed within a broad sociopolitical and socioeconomic contextual framework. The format and writing consistency through the book reflects a Chinese perspective, and allows students to compare Chinese with Western and American views.

Author : Xiaowei Zang,Lucy Xia Zhao
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785368196

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Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China by Xiaowei Zang,Lucy Xia Zhao Pdf

This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.

Author : Shuang Qiu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031172502

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Gender and Family Practices by Shuang Qiu Pdf

This book examines how gender and heterosexuality structure the lived experiences of people in living apart together (LAT) relationships in contemporary Chinese society. Using in-depth interview data with Chinese LAT people of different ages, the author explores why they live apart; how they construct and make sense of their everyday family lives and negotiate their gender roles; and how they experience intimacy while being physically apart. This text sheds new insights on non-cohabitating intimate partnerships by bringing together themes of gender, family, intimacy, and relationality. Through looking at people’s lived experiences in LAT relationships, it argues that practices of family and intimacy are closely implicated with doing gender, and consequently, that gendered family lives and heterosexuality are reconstructed, rather than deconstructed, in order to reclaim conventional forms of family and gender norms in Chinese social, historical and cultural contexts. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Family Studies, in addition to scholars of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

Author : Robin Yates
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047429661

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Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present by Robin Yates Pdf

This essential reference work is an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, and 100+ dissertations in all social science and humanities disciplines relating to women in China from earliest times to today.

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520098565

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century by Gail Hershatter Pdf

“An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953

Author : Zongli Tang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811048319

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China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact by Zongli Tang Pdf

This book examines the impacts of China’s urbanization on the country’s economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data, archives, and fieldwork research to do so. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book places special emphasis on issues that have been neglected in prior studies, and provides up-to-date information, reports, and analyses based on the latest events. Further, it considers future directions and strategies regarding urban development, discusses regional urbanization in selected poor and “backward” western provinces, analyzes changes in traditional clan culture brought on by urbanization, and explores evolutions in local clan societies in the Qin and Han Dynasties when cities expanded and business flourished. Lastly, the book examines the effects of infrastructure-related determinants on urban expansion rates and urban land prices, demonstrates the ebbs and flows of public opinion regarding various environmental issues, discusses planned real estate tax reform, and assesses the impact of demographic and socioeconomic changes on young unmarried women.

Author : Jieyu Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134164752

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Gender and Work in Urban China by Jieyu Liu Pdf

Drawing upon extensive life history interviews, this book makes the voices of ordinary women workers heard and applies feminist perspectives on women and work to the Chinese situation.

Author : Zongli Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000401110

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Local Clan Communities in Rural China by Zongli Tang Pdf

Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, this book examines China’s clan system and local clan communities in rural Anhui, covering events in two periods: the imperial pattern as seen in the first half of the twentieth century and changes since 1949. Revealed by this research, during the late Qing and the Republic Era, a local clan in the investigated areas was run as a highly autonomous community with a strong religious focus, which challenges the corporate model raised by Maurice Freedman. Through examining single-surname villages, citang constructions, and updating of genealogies, local clans in Huadong, Huizhou and the lower Yangtze River plains in particular, developed earlier than those in the Pearl River Delta Region. Taking a cross-disciplinary viewpoint, this book analyses changes in local clan communities and clan culture as brought by the Chinese Revolution, Mao’s political campaigns, and Deng’s reforms. Starting with the late 1990s, a large migration from villages to cities has rapidly altered rural China. This geographic mobility would undermine the common residence that serves as part of a clan’s foundation. Under such situation, what transformations have taken place or will affect China’s clan system? Will the system continue to revitalise or die out? Local Clan Communities in Rural China reports these events/transformations and attempts to answer these questions. Placing a special emphasis on issues that have been overlooked by prior studies, this book brings to light many new facts and interpretations and provides a valuable reference to scholars in fields of sociology, anthropology, history, economics, cultural studies, urban studies, and population studies.

Author : Stephen Frosh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030327583

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New Voices in Psychosocial Studies by Stephen Frosh Pdf

Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research. Its extraordinary liveliness is demonstrated in this book, which showcases research undertaken at the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, highlighting three domains central to the discipline – psychoanalysis, ethics and reflexivity, and resistance. The book engages psychosocially with a wide variety of topics, from social critiques of psychoanalysis through postcolonial and queer theory to studies of mental health and resistance to discrimination. These ‘New Voices in Psychosocial Studies’ offer a coherent yet wide-ranging account of research that has taken place in one ‘dialect’ of the new terrain of psychosocial studies and an agenda-setting manifesto for some of the kinds of work that might ensure the continued creativity of psychosocial studies into the next generation. This book demonstrates the ongoing development of psychosocial studies as an innovative, critical force and will inspire both new and established researchers from across the fields that influence its transdisciplinary approach, including: critical psychology and radical sociology, feminist, queer and postcolonial theory, critical anthropology and ethnography and phenomenology.