Separation and reunion in modern China / Charles Stafford.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages)Content type:- text
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- 0511151640
- 9780511151644
- 0511016174
- 9780511016172
- 9780511488931
- 0511488939
- DS721
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an anthropology of separation -- 1. Two festival of reunion -- 2. The etiquette of parting and return -- 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead -- 4. The ambivalent threshold -- 5. Commensality as reunion -- 6. Women and the obligation to return -- 7. Developing a sense of history -- 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion -- 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan -- Conclusion: the separation constraint -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Charles Stafford explores the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion, based upon his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China. He gives a vivid account of everyday rituals, and examines how they help people settle into communities, and to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national culture.
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