Visions of Marriage : Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020 / Hsiao-Chiao Chiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiu, Hsiao-Chiao, Author.

, European Research Council (ERC), Author.

Contributor:

European Research Council (ERC), Funder.

Series:

Asian Anthropologies Series

Asian Anthropologies ; 15

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Center for Geriatrics and Welfare Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. Her publication includes a coedited volume, Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021). Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Center for Geriatrics and Welfare Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. Her publication includes a coedited volume, Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021).

Summary:

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. While theories of modernity often treat marriage as an index of social change, without adequate attention to its transformative capacities generated through personal and familial agency, this volume provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Migrant Economy and Marriage in the Republican Era

Chapter 2. Militarization and Marriage in the Cold War Context

Chapter 3. Changing Intergenerational Transmission amid Political and Economic Liberalization

Chapter 4. Trials of Marrying

Chapter 5. Cross-Border Marriage on the Borderland

Chapter 6. The Work of Marriage: An In-Married Woman's Perspective

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

9781800738898

1800738897

9781800738904

1800738900