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Love's Uncertainty : The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China / Teresa Kuan.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuan, Teresa, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child rearing--China--History--21st century.
- Child rearing.
- Child rearing--China.
- Parenting--China.
- Parenting.
- Education--Parent participation--China.
- Education.
- Homebound instruction--China.
- Homebound instruction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Love's Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents' experiences in the historical context of state efforts to improve "population quality," Love's Uncertainty reveals how global transformations are expressed in the most intimate of human experiences. Ultimately, the book offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency, examining how people discern, amid the myriad contingencies of life, the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Politics of Childhood
- 2. The Horrific and the Exemplary
- 3. "The Heart Says One Thing but the Hand Does Another"
- 4. Creating Tiaojian, or, The Art of Disposition
- 5. The Defeat of Maternal Logic in Televisual Space
- 6. Investing in Human Capital, Conserving Life Energies
- 7. Banking in Affects
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520283503
- 0520283503
- 9780520959361
- 0520959361
- OCLC:
- 899739355
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