Family and Kinship in Chinese Society
Author: Ai-li S. Chin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780804707138
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Author: Ai-li S. Chin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780804707138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes bibliographical references.
Author: Maurice Freedman
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 269
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marion Joseph Levy
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh D. R. Baker
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William R. Jankowiak
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-11-28
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0745685587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China. It is no surprise, therefore, that the dramatic changes experienced by Chinese society over the past century have produced a wide array of new family systems. Where a widely accepted Confucian-based ideology once offered a standard framework for family life, current ideas offer no such uniformity. Ties of affection rather than duty have become prominent in determining what individuals feel they owe to their spouses, parents, children, and others. Chinese millennials, facing a world of opportunities and, at the same time, feeling a sense of heavy obligation, are reshaping patterns of courtship, marriage, and filiality in ways that were not foreseen by their parents nor by the authorities of the Chinese state. Those whose roots are in the countryside but who have left their homes to seek opportunity and adventure in the city face particular pressures as do the children and elders they have left behind. The authors explore this diversity focusing on rural vs. urban differences, regionalism, and ethnic diversity within China. Family Life in China presents new perspectives on what the current changes in this institution imply for a rapidly changing society.
Author: Paul Chao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1136135707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1983. Professor Paul Chao writes Chinese Kinship in the line of the Chinese tradition; it is in this tradition that cultural complexes, such as family structure and kinship in relation to religious, political and economic organizations, are expounded by analysis of concepts and supported by historical documents. For the anthropological study of kinship is indispensable as a supplement to important historical work on basis of written documents. Professor Chao has made, in the main, a study of kinship in China of all known periods. He has taken the points of view of social anthropology and has also given a history of his topic.
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780415288231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in a historical context.
Author: Susanne Brandtstädter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1134105886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection's analytical emphasis is on the modern 'metamorphoses' of kinship in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison.
Author: Zhenman Zheng
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0824842014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is the result of more than a decade of research on the Chinese household and lineage in the southeastern province of Fujian during the Ming and Qing period (1368-1911). It offers new interpretations of the Chinese domestic cycle, the relationship between household and larger kinship groups, and the development of lineage society in south China. Using hundreds of previously unknown lineage genealogies, stone inscriptions, and land deeds, Zheng Zhenman provides a candid view of how individuals and families confronted the crucial issues of daily life: how to minimize taxes or military conscription; how to balance the ideological imperatives of ancestor worship with practical concerns; how to deal with the problems of dividing the household estate. His research leads to an exploration of issues such as the relation of state to society and the compatibility of Chinese culture and capitalism. This complete translation allows access to some of the most exciting new research being done in Chinese social history. Zheng's book draws on important materials largely unknown to Western scholars, comes to novel conclusions about society in late imperial China, and illustrates the importance of the non-Western perspective in studying the history of the world outside the West.
Author: Myron L. Cohen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780804750677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.