| Description |
1 online resource (279 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Contemporary China Series, 10 |
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Routledge Contemporary China Series, 10
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 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 |
| Summary |
This volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection's analytical emphasis is on the modern 'metamorphoses' of kinship in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kinship -- China -- History
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Families -- China -- History
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Families
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Kinship
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024186
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Santos, Gonalo D
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| ISBN |
9780203889886 |
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0203889886 |
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