Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45022-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: China Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yan, Yunxiang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Klubs, Vereine, Geheimgesellschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).