Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Yunxiang Yan
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For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this book--a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999.
The author's focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality.
He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
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For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this book--a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999.
The author's focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality.
He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
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- Title Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999
- Author Yunxiang Yan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 2003-03-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780804744560 / 0804744564
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Family - China - Xiajia (Heilongjiang Sheng), Marriage - China - Xiajia (Heilongjiang
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002013327
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.809
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- Library Journal, 06/01/2003, Page 142
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