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Autore: | Stafford Charles |
Titolo: | Separation and reunion in modern China / / Charles Stafford |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge ; ; New York, NY, USA, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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. |
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.: | 9910810795303321 |
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