Chinese Families Upside Down Intergenerational Dynamics And Neo Familism In The Early 21st Century

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450238
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family and goes beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational dynamics.

Author : Mayfair Yang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040011608
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology of Ascendant China written by Mayfair Yang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China’s ascendancy both within China itself and beyond. It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyzes China’s multifaceted transformations in the modern era—both within Chinese society and in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a strong historical perspective, and theoretically engaged analyses to present a balanced account of China’s ascendancy. Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations is suitable for students and scholars in Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, and East Asian Studies, as well as those working on contemporary Chinese society and culture more broadly.

Author : Sandra V. Constantin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031572165
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths written by Sandra V. Constantin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheying Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031363124
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in Diverse Contexts written by Sheying Chen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West. Unlike social policy that started with the post-war idea of a welfare state in the mid-20th century, social work traces its roots to individual casework pioneered by the Charity Organization Society (COS), early social administration including state-wide poverty relief (an advocacy effort of the COS but with deep roots in the English Poor Laws of the 17th century), and social action emphasizing political activities to improve social conditions (originating from the Settlement House Movement which began in the 1880s). The development of social work is historically intertwined with that of public welfare, philanthropy, and charity and is an inherently international subject. This conception is broader than “international social work” as a discrete field of professional practice, which crosses geopolitical borders and all levels of social and economic organizations with a focus on development. However, each nation has a story of its own in terms of professionalization of social work in the evolution of public welfare and philanthropic/charitable undertaking within its particular economic, political, social, and cultural settings. A wide-ranging and in-depth study of various (especially non-Western) country cases is essential to an adequate, comprehensive understanding of the social work profession, which is also a basic requirement of its value of diversity. China is undoubtedly an important case with the largest population on earth. It’s also unique in view of so-called Chinese characteristics which are sometimes fundamentally different from other (particularly Western) societies. It’s even intriguing given the country’s lengthy, complex history and its recent, rapid rise to a global superpower with a claim of national goals and core values that seem to be rather considerable to social work as a helping profession. Therefore, any significant lessons learned from the Chinese experiences would help with a better international understanding and further advancement of social work and public welfare at a global scale.

Author : Shuang Qiu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031172507
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Family Practices written by Shuang Qiu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how gender and heterosexuality structure the lived experiences of people in living apart together (LAT) relationships in contemporary Chinese society. Using in-depth interview data with Chinese LAT people of different ages, the author explores why they live apart; how they construct and make sense of their everyday family lives and negotiate their gender roles; and how they experience intimacy while being physically apart. This text sheds new insights on non-cohabitating intimate partnerships by bringing together themes of gender, family, intimacy, and relationality. Through looking at people’s lived experiences in LAT relationships, it argues that practices of family and intimacy are closely implicated with doing gender, and consequently, that gendered family lives and heterosexuality are reconstructed, rather than deconstructed, in order to reclaim conventional forms of family and gender norms in Chinese social, historical and cultural contexts. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Family Studies, in addition to scholars of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

Author : Deborah A. Boehm
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147982335X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States of Return written by Deborah A. Boehm and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "State of Return theoretically explores the concept of "return" and ethnographically traces different experiences of return migration across the globe with emphases on temporality, kinship, and citizenship. Collectively, contributors show how return significantly reconfigures the lives of people as they move across borders"--

Author : Han Tao
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529233275
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering Kinship written by Han Tao and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book explores the various tactics queer people employ to have children and to form queer or ‘rainbow’ families. It unpacks people’s experiences of cultivating, or losing, kinship relations through their negotiation with biological relatives, cultural conventions and state legislations.

Author : Matthias Vanhullebusch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538623
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law written by Matthias Vanhullebusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region. Volume 7 of the Yearbook covers a wide range of topics, which have been organized along four central themes: Human Rights Protection and Erosion during the (Post-) COVID-19 Pandemic; Economic, Social and Environmental Rights Contestation and Evolution; Human Rights Protection of Vulnerable Persons; and Human Rights and Democratic Values under Threat.

Author : Canglong Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031276698
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating the Confucian Individual written by Canglong Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complexities of cultivating ‘Confucian individuals’ through classics study in contemporary China by drawing on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a Confucian classical school, three topics are investigated: parents’ narratives and actions related to ‘dis-embedding’ their children from mainstream state education and transferring them to Confucian education as an alternative; the specific discourses and practices of teaching and learning the classics in everyday school life, guided by the aim of training students to become autonomous learners; and the institutional and subjective dilemmas that arise when parents and students seek to ‘re-embed’ themselves in either the state education system or further Confucian studies at an advanced academy for the next stage of education. The research presented in this book contributes to understanding the hidden dynamics of individualization in the Confucian education revival and the intricacies of subject-making through Confucian teaching and learning in the socialist state of China.

Author : Hsiao-Chiao Chiu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800738889
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Marriage written by Hsiao-Chiao Chiu and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.