Private Life Under Socialism - Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999

"The best ethnography of rural China in the 1990s, this important book is about a rarely explored but central dimension of Chinese family life. Yan also places his study of private life directly in the center of classic debates about the character and importance of corporate kinship. It takes years of sharing villagers' lives to see beneath the surface. Yan lived it, and he brings deep understanding to both the narrative and the analysis."--Deborah Davis, Yale University
"This may well prove to be the finest rural ethnography of a Chinese village ever written. By focusing on the emotional domain, Yan invites his readers to engage ethnographically in a new domain of scholarly exploration and analysis. In so doing, he has made the Chinese more human. It is a wonderful study."--William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Yunxiang Yan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford, 1996).

Zusammenfassung

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as a farmer. In 1989 he returned as an anthropologist to begin the span of 11 years' fieldwork that has resulted in this work - an account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Yunxiang Yan, Yan Yunxiang
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.03.2003
• EAN: 9780804733090
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3309-0
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 239 mm x 26 mm
• Gewicht: 572 g
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Sociology, Politische Ideologien, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism