Overview

Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational dynamics. Supported by ethnographic findings from the latest field research, novel interpretations of neo-familism address critical issues from fresh perspectives, such as the ambivalence in grandparenting, the conflicts between individual and family interests, the remaking of the moral self in the face of family crises, and the decisive influence of the Chinese state on family change. The book is an essential read for scholars and students of China studies in particular and for those who are interested in the present-day family and kinship in general.

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Author:   Yunxiang Yan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   42
Weight:   0.613kg
ISBN:  

9789004450226

ISBN 10:   900445022
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   18 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  The Inverted Family, Post- Patriarchal Intergenerationality and Neo-Familism 1   Yunxiang Yan 2 “We Do”  Parental Involvement in the Marriages of Urban Sons and Daughters   Deborah S. Davis 3 The “Leftover” Majority  Why Urban Men and Women Born under China’s One- Child Policy Remain Unmarried through Age 27   Vanessa L. Fong, Greene Ko, Cong Zhang, and Sung won Kim 4 United in Suffering  Rural Grandparents and the Intergenerational Contributions of Care   Erin Thomason 5 Floating Grandparents  Rethinking Family Obligation and Intergenerational Support   Xiaoying Qi 6 Families Under (Peer) Pressure  Self-Advocacy and Ambivalence among Women in Collective Dance Groups 123   Claudia Huang 7 Intimate Power  Intergenerational Cooperation and Conflicts in Childrearing among Urban Families   Suowei Xiao 8 Losing an Only Child  Parental Grief among China’s Shidu Parents   Lihong Shi 9 The Chinese Proto Neo-Family Configuration  A Historical Ethnography   William Jankowiak 10 The Statist Model of Family Policy Making   Yunxiang Yan 11 Three Discourses on Neo-Familism   Yunxiang Yan Index

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Yunxiang Yan, Ph.D. (1993), is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Flow of Gifts (Stanford U P, 1996), Private Life under Socialism (Stanford U P, 2003), and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, 2009).

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