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Private Life under Socialism

Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

By: Yunxiang Yan

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Private Life under Socialism

Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

By: Yunxiang Yan

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.

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319

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Stanford University Press

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0804764115

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9780804764117

The Individualization of Chinese Society

By: Yunxiang Yan

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The Individualization of Chinese Society

By: Yunxiang Yan

Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres and the consequent individualization of Chinese society itself. Yet, despite China's recent dramatic entrance into global politics and economics, neither of these significant shifts has been fully analysed. China may indeed present an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalisation - so its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world.The Individualization of Chinese Society reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has impacted on everyday life and Chinese society more broadly. The book presents a wide range of detailed case studies - on the impact of economic policy, patterns of kinship, changes in marriage relations and the socio-economic position of women, the development of youth culture, the politics of consumerism, and shifting power relations in everyday life.

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271

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Routledge

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1000323749

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9781000323740

Deep China

The Moral Life of the Person

By: Arthur Kleinman,Yunxiang Yan,Jing Jun,Dr. Sing Lee,Everett Zhang

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Deep China

The Moral Life of the Person

By: Arthur Kleinman,Yunxiang Yan,Jing Jun,Dr. Sing Lee,Everett Zhang

Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.

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Univ of California Press

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0520950518

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9780520950511

Private Life under Socialism

Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

By: Yunxiang Yan

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Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

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China in the Eyes of the Japanese

By: Wang Xiuli,Wang Wei,Liang Yunxiang

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China in the Eyes of the Japanese

By: Wang Xiuli,Wang Wei,Liang Yunxiang

The relation between China and Japan is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world but how did the Japanese view China in ancient times? How did views change throughout the course of history? How could China’s image be improved in Japanese people’s eyes? This book provides an analysis of the history of contact between China and Japan and surveys the present situation to understand general views of Japanese society toward China. Through scientific public opinion surveys as well as in-depth interviews, the book examines ordinary and elite Japanese people’s views of Chinese culture, society, politics, the economy, media and Sino-Japanese relations. In addition, it analyzes the main causes of the formation of such views, and makes suggestions on promoting positive public opinions of China. The authors hope that this title can deepen Japanese society’s understanding and comprehension of China, help promote Sino-Japanese non-governmental exchange, and lay the foundation for continuous development of Sino-Japanese relations. This title will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, international relations and Asian studies.

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192

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Routledge

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1000325881

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9781000325881

China's Telecommunications Reforms

From Monopoly Towards Competition

By: Scott Yunxiang Guan

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China's Telecommunications Reforms

From Monopoly Towards Competition

By: Scott Yunxiang Guan

In the early 1990s, China started to reform its telecommunications regime by removing barriers to foreign and private investment and encouraging competition. This text applies the "Public Choice Plus" theory (developed in the study of economics) to the analysis of the policymaking process of China's telecommunications reforms. Guan is a senior fellow at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the U. of Toronto.

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Nova Publishers

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1590335406

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9781590335406

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

By: Yunxiang Gao

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Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

By: Yunxiang Gao

This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a transpacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China's modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. The book's multilingual approach draws from massive yet rarely used archival streams in China and in Chinatowns and elsewhere in the United States. These materials allow Gao to retell the well-known stories of Du Bois, Robeson, and Hughes alongside the sagas of Liu and Chen in a work that will transform and redefine Afro-Asia studies.

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407

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UNC Press Books

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1469664615

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9781469664613

Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China?s National Crisis, 1931-45

By: Yunxiang Gao

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Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China?s National Crisis, 1931-45

By: Yunxiang Gao

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these women and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.

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350

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UBC Press

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0774824832

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9780774824835

Deep China

The Moral Life of the Person

By: Arthur Kleinman,Yunxiang Yan,Jing Jun,Dr. Sing Lee,Everett Zhang

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The Moral Life of the Person

By: Arthur Kleinman,Yunxiang Yan,Jing Jun,Dr. Sing Lee,Everett Zhang

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Univ of California Press

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0520950518

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The Individualization of Chinese Society

By: Yunxiang Yan

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1000325539

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The Flow of Gifts

Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village

By: Yunxiang Yan

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The Flow of Gifts

Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village

By: Yunxiang Yan

Gift-giving is a classic topic in anthropology, where on-going debates involve the principle of reciprocity, the spirit of the gift, and the relationship between gifts and commodities. But the topic has been surprisingly little studied in the Chinese context except for the form of instrumental exchange known as networking or guanxi.

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0804726035

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9780804726030

Book's by Yunxiang Yan

Private Life under Socialism

Private Life under Socialism

The Individualization of Chinese Society

The Individualization of Chinese Society

Deep China

Deep China

Private Life under Socialism

Private Life under Socialism

China in the Eyes of the Japanese

China in the Eyes of the Japanese

China's Telecommunications Reforms

China's Telecommunications Reforms

Arise Africa, Roar China

Arise Africa, Roar China

Sporting Gender

Sporting Gender

Deep China

Deep China

The Individualization of Chinese Society

The Individualization of Chinese Society

The Flow of Gifts

The Flow of Gifts

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