Separation and reunion in modern China / / Charles Stafford [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Stafford Charles
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| Titolo: |
Separation and reunion in modern China / / Charles Stafford [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Separation (Psychology) - China |
| Reunions - China | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Social life and customs |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (179-199) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between friends, and bitter political rhetoric about Chinese national unity. The idioms and practices of separation and reunion - which are woven into the fabric of daily life - help people to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national division. In this book, the discussion of everyday rituals leads into a unique and accessible general introduction to Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Separation & Reunion in Modern China |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Separation and reunion in modern China |
| ISBN: | 1-107-11997-9 |
| 1-280-42961-5 | |
| 0-511-17278-8 | |
| 0-511-01617-4 | |
| 0-511-15164-0 | |
| 0-511-31078-1 | |
| 0-511-48893-9 | |
| 0-511-05002-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450089503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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