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Separation and reunion in modern China / Charles Stafford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stafford, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Separation (Psychology)--China.
- Separation (Psychology).
- Reunions--China.
- Reunions.
- China--Social life and customs.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Separation & Reunion in Modern China
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between friends, and bitter political rhetoric about Chinese national unity. The idioms and practices of separation and reunion - which are woven into the fabric of daily life - help people to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national division. In this book, the discussion of everyday rituals leads into a unique and accessible general introduction to Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: an anthropology of separation
- 1. Two festival of reunion
- 2. The etiquette of parting and return
- 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead
- 4. The ambivalent threshold
- 5. Commensality as reunion
- 6. Women and the obligation to return
- 7. Developing a sense of history
- 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion
- 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
- Conclusion: the separation constraint
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (179-199) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11997-9
- 1-280-42961-5
- 0-511-17278-8
- 0-511-01617-4
- 0-511-15164-0
- 0-511-31078-1
- 0-511-48893-9
- 0-511-05002-X
- OCLC:
- 50188088
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