Extraordinary in the Mundane - Family and Forms of Community in China

This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.

List of contents

Introduction: The Extraordinary in the Mundane, by Becky Yang Hsu
1. Love for a Child: Parental Advocacy for Social Inclusion, by Yunxiang Yan
2. Family Metaphors: Inequality, Culture War, and Imperiled Common Good in China and the United States, by Richard Madsen
3. Comfort in Group Experience: The Frenzy for Psy-Training, by Teresa Kuan
4. Rebooting a Family: Helping Children in Internet Addiction Treatment Camps, by Yichen Rao
5. Dreams of Marriage: Social Media and Disconnect for Young Married Women, by Lynn Lin Sun
6. Good Care in Childbirth: C-Sections as Individual or Collective Decisions, by Gonçalo Santos
7. Repaired Reflections: The Associative Act of Preparing Burial Clothing, by Becky Yang Hsu
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

About the author

Becky Yang Hsu is associate professor of sociology at Georgetown University, where she is also affiliated with the Asian Studies Program and is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Her most recent book is The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life (coedited with Richard Madsen, 2019).

Summary

This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.

Product details

• Authors: Becky Yang Hsu, Becky Yang (EDT) Hsu
• Assisted by: Becky Yang Hsu (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.2025
• EAN: 9780231217910
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21791-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Social Science, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Sociology & anthropology, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Sociology and anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies