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Author:   Becky Yang Hsu
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231217903

ISBN 10:   0231217900
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   11 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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

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Becky Yang Hsu and the contributors have produced an exemplary volume that transcends the false dichotomy of China versus the world, presents rich ethnographic details, and, most importantly, highlights the cultural and moral dimensions of Chinese associational life. -- Bin Xu, author of <i>The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society</i>

Becky Yang Hsu and the contributors have produced an exemplary volume that transcends the false dichotomy of China versus the world, presents rich ethnographic details, and, most importantly, highlights the cultural and moral dimensions of Chinese associational life. -- Bin Xu, author of <i>The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society</i> The fine-grained essays in this book delve into the textures of daily life in contemporary China, providing convincing clues about the dramatic transformations that China is undergoing through minute adjustments in social ethics and practices. These essays expertly demonstrate how shifts in family and marital relations, electronically mediated social relations, and funerary practices both propel as well as result from the economic dynamism of the sometimes troubled powerhouse that is China today. -- Mayfair Yang, author of <i>Re-Enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China</i> The Extraordinary in the Mundane is a tour-de-force of on-the-ground research in contemporary China. Challenging the idea that civil society is dead, the authors of this book show how social space still exists and that individuals act in ways that reflect informal organizations. -- Ian Johnson, author of <i>Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future</i>

Author Information

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).

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