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Author(s): Susanne Brandtstadter, Goncalo D. Santos
ISBN(s): 9780415456975, 0203889886
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ISBN 10: 0203889886 
ISBN 13: 9780415456975
Author: Susanne Brandtstadter, Goncalo D Santos

The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice-versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material from the late imperial period and from contemporary Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, from northern and southern regions as well as from rural and urban settings, the volume provides unique insights into the historical and spatial diversities of the Chinese kinship experience. This emphasis on diversity challenges the classic ‘lineage paradigm’ of Chinese kinship and establishes a dialogue with contemporary anthropological debates about human kinship reflecting on the emergence of radically new family formations in the Euro-American context. Chinese Kinship will be of interest to anthropologists and sinologists, as to historians and social scientists in general.

Chinese Kinship Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives Routledge Contemporary China Series 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: Motion, Migration and Urbanity

  1. ‘Families we create’

    • Women’s space

    • Rupture and relatedness

    • Women’s strategies

    • Spatialized practices

    • Mobility and fixity in emergent practices

    • Acknowledgements

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

  2. Living a single life

    • Introduction

    • The village

    • Beyond demographic causes

    • Local kinship and marriage systems

    • Cross-cousin marriage

    • Uxorilocal marriage

    • Brideprice and dowry

    • Marriage squeeze for males, gender and sexuality

    • Contesting gender space and modernity

    • Living a single life: the plight and adaptations of the bachelors

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

  3. Practicing connectiveness as kinship in urban China

    • Introduction

    • Danwei social organization and neighborhood interaction as relatedness

    • Proximity, friendship, and relatedness: the urban ‘neighborhood’

    • Ethnicity, native place and religion: a basis for relatedness

    • Relatedness, friendship and guanxi

    • Domestic arena and urban kinship

    • Reconfiguring the dual multigenerational family

    • Conclusion

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

Part 2: Intimacy, Gender and Power

  1. The ties that bind

    • An unusual cultural configuration

    • The practice of dui pnua intimacy

    • In death as in life

    • Male dui pnua

    • Conclusions

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

  2. The ‘stove-family’ and the process of kinship in rural South China

    • A Cantonese ‘lineage village’ in the late post-Mao era

    • The ‘looking for food’ business of the local village world

    • The stove as a major metaphor of and for the family

    • Resource-sharing – or food-sharing – around a common stove

    • Rice and food, kinship and relatedness

    • Glossary (Cantonese in Yale, Mandarin in Pinyin)

    • Notes

    • References

  3. Actually existing Chinese matriarchy

    • Women at the top

    • The power of ordinary women

    • Reconciling the conflicting evidence

    • Reproducing patriarchy?

    • Discussion: women’s actual power

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

  4. Gendered work and the production of kinship values in Taiwan and China

    • Ganqing economies inside-out: kinship space and gendered production in Niaoyu and Meidao

    • China and Taiwan: wrestling control over labour from the family

    • Money, work and sincerity: producing kinship in Meidao and Niaoyu

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • Bibliography

Part 3: State, Body and Civilization

  1. Becoming a mother in late imperial China

    • The concept of doubles

    • ‘The rich get children’

    • Medicine, fertility and motherhood

    • Theories of natural kinship

    • Legacies and echoes?

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

  2. Education and the governing of child-centered relatedness

    • Zouping County

    • Zouping cultures of relatedness

    • Educational processes and family relationships

    • A generation gap?

    • Teachers as kin

    • Conclusions

    • Glossary

    • Notes

    • References

  3. Disruption, commemoration and family repair

  • Preamble

  • The setting before disruption

  • The disruption and its eventual commemoration

  • Disruption personified: the story of Wang Shufan

  • An ancestor in limbo: Wang Ming’s elder brother

  • Spiritual replacement and displacement

  • Family connections and disconnections: the two Wu families

  • Historical recognition and family repair

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