03597nam 2200613 a 450 991078150270332120200520144314.01-283-21355-997866132135560-7391-6442-2(CKB)2550000000042745(EBL)741760(OCoLC)750183097(SSID)ssj0000534965(PQKBManifestationID)12183956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534965(PQKBWorkID)10536455(PQKB)10594876(MiAaPQ)EBC741760(Au-PeEL)EBL741760(CaPaEBR)ebr10490776(CaONFJC)MIL321355(EXLCZ)99255000000004274520110325d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChildbirth in republican China[electronic resource] delivering modernity /Tina Phillips JohnsonLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20111 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-6440-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Missionaries and modernity -- Reproduction theory : modern childbirth and modern motherhood -- The midwifery profession -- National reproduction in republican China -- Epilogue : reproduction in twentieth-century China."Childbirth is a window into the shifting cultural and political landscape of a particular place and time. Much can be learned about a culture by examining its treatment of women and children. More importantly, reproduction encompasses both a moral and a social imperative; the continuation of a society rests on childbirth. In imperial China, securing the continuation of the family line was the utmost filial act, with the family as the basic organizing unit of society and the state. Yi-li Wu noted that "childbirth was the warp on which the fabric of society was woven" in imperial China. I argue that childbirth remains so, and alterations in how childbirth is viewed and conducted merely point to larger ideological visions of social and political structures. Li Xiaojiang asserted in the preface to her anthropological study of modernization and traditional childbirth customs in rural China in the 1990s that "because of its close relationship with levels of health and disease, birth is one of the keys to understanding and constructing women's lives, but our field of vision has been blind to it." Opening one's eyes to the rich material surrounding childbirth, the researcher is made aware that legislation regarding reproduction and birth, maternal and child health, and the general treatment of women and children illuminate the relative value or disregard a people carry for those women and children."--Publisher's description.ChildbirthChinaHistory20th centuryMaternal and infant welfareChinaHistory20th centuryMaternal health servicesChinaHistory20th centuryMotherhoodChinaHistory20th centuryChildbirthHistoryMaternal and infant welfareHistoryMaternal health servicesHistoryMotherhoodHistory362.198/400951Johnson Tina Phillips1968-1572390MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781502703321Childbirth in republican China3847298UNINA