Chinese kinship : contemporary anthropological perspectives
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Chinese kinship : contemporary anthropological perspectives
(RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series, 33)
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
- : hbk
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  Fukui
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  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
"Based on the conference 'On Chinese Kinship and Relatedness: Contemporary Anthropological Perspective' held at the University of Manchester on April 22-23, 2006"--Acknowledgements, p. xiv
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Chinese kinship metamorphoses PART 1: MOTION, MIGRATION AND URBANITY 1. 'Families we create': Women's kinship in rural China as spatialized practice 2. Living a single life. The plight and adaptations of the bachelors in Yishala 3. Practicing connectiveness as kinship in Urban China PART 2: INTIMACY, GENDER AND POWER 4. The ties that bind: Female homosociality and the production of intimacy in rural China 5. The 'stove-family' and the process of kinship in rural South China 6. Actually existing Chinese matriarchy 7. The gender of work and the production of kinship value in Taiwan and China PART 3: STATE, BODY AND CIVILIZATION 8. Becoming a mother in Late Imperial China: maternal doubles and the ambiguities of fertility 9. Education and the governing of child-centred relatedness 10. Disruption, commemoration and family repair AFTERWORD
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