LEADER 03630nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910457254403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21355-9 010 $a9786613213556 010 $a0-7391-6442-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000042745 035 $a(EBL)741760 035 $a(OCoLC)750183097 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534965 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12183956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534965 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10536455 035 $a(PQKB)10594876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC741760 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL741760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10490776 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321355 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000042745 100 $a20110325d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChildbirth in republican China$b[electronic resource] $edelivering modernity /$fTina Phillips Johnson 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-6440-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMissionaries and modernity -- Reproduction theory : modern childbirth and modern motherhood -- The midwifery profession -- National reproduction in republican China -- Epilogue : reproduction in twentieth-century China. 330 $a"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. 606 $aChildbirth$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMaternal and infant welfare$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMaternal health services$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotherhood$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChildbirth$xHistory 615 0$aMaternal and infant welfare$xHistory 615 0$aMaternal health services$xHistory 615 0$aMotherhood$xHistory 676 $a362.198/400951 700 $aJohnson$b Tina Phillips$f1968-$0866980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457254403321 996 $aChildbirth in republican China$91935163 997 $aUNINA