Chinese kinship : contemporary anthropological perspectives / edited by Susanne Brandtstädter and Gonçalo D. Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandtstädter, Susanne.

Santos, Gonçalo D.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--China--History.

Kinship.

Families--China--History.

Families.

History.

China.

China--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: Chinese kinship metamorphoses / Susanne Brandtstadter, Goncalo D. Santos 1

Part 1 Motion, Migration and Urbanity 27

1 'Families we create': women's kinship in rural China as spatialized practice / Ellen R. Judd 29

2 Living a single life: the plight and adaptations of the bachelors in Yishala / Hua Han 48

3 Practicing connectiveness as kinship in urban China / William Jankowiak 67

Part 2 Intimacy, Gender and Power 93

4 The ties that bind: female homosociality and the production of intimacy in rural China / Sara L. Friedman 95

5 The 'stove-family' and the process of kinship in rural South China / Goncalo D. Santos 112

6 Actually existing Chinese matriarchy / Charles Stafford 137

7 The gender of work and the production of kinship value in Taiwan and China / Susanne Brandtstadter 154

Part 3 State, Body and Civilization 179

8 Becoming a mother in Late Imperial China: maternal doubles and the ambiguities of fertility / Francesca Bray 181

9 Education and the governing of child-centered relatedness / Andrew Kipnis 204

10 Disruption, commemoration and family repair / Stephan Feuchtwang 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415456975

0415456975

9780203889886

0203889886

OCLC:

212431193