China''s Grandmothers - Gender, Family, and Ageing From Late Qing to Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor Diana Lary is Professor Emerita of Modern Chinese History at University of British Columbia. Klappentext Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Introduction; 1. Precious treasures; 2. Archetypes; 3. Baby seekers; 4. Child carers'; 5. Ruling the roost; 6. Old age; 7. Grandfathers; 8. Transmitters of culture; 9. Absent parents; 10. Left behind children; 11. Pleasures of old age; 12. Leaving this life; 13. The future of old age; 14. Personal notes; Afterword.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Diana Lary, Diana (University of British Columbia Lary, Lary Diana
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781316513354
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51335-4
• Seiten: 250
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Ratgeber > Gesundheit; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Women, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls