Hsu The Extraordinary in the Mundane

Family and Forms of Community in China
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56196-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hsu, Becky Yang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).