The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China
Title | The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Croll |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1981-02-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0521233453 |
Dr Elisabeth Croll examines the institute of marriage in the People's Republic of China.
Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China
Title | Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaowei Zang |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2017-12-29 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN | 1785368192 |
This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.
Love Stories in China
Title | Love Stories in China PDF eBook |
Author | Wanning Sun |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2019-07-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000497232 |
This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. It focuses on a range of cultural and media forms including literature, film, television, music and new media, examines new cultural practices such as online activism, virtual intimacy and relationship counselling, and discusses how far love and romance have come to assume new shapes and forms in the twenty-first century. Love Stories in China offers deep insights into how the huge transformation of China over the last four decades has impacted the micro lives of ordinary Chinese people.
Marriage Unbound
Title | Marriage Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Ke Li |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2022-07-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1503632024 |
China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system. Today, divorce may appear a private concern, when in fact it is a profoundly political matter—especially in a national context where marriage was and has continued to be a key vehicle for nation-state building. Marriage Unbound focuses on the politics of divorce cases in contemporary China, following a group of women seeking judicial remedies for conjugal grievances and disputes. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic data, paired with unprecedented access to rural Chinese courtrooms, Ke Li presents not only a stirring portrayal of how these women navigate divorce litigation, but also a uniquely in-depth account of the modern Chinese legal system. With sensitive and fluid prose, Li reveals the struggles between the powerful and the powerless at the front lines of dispute management; the complex interplay between culture and the state; and insidious statecraft that far too often sacrifices women's rights and interests. Ultimately, this book shows how women's legal mobilization and rights contention can forge new ground for our understanding of law, politics, and inequality in an authoritarian regime.
Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010
Title | Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010 PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaofei Kang |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-11-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004415939 |
A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.
Russia and China
Title | Russia and China PDF eBook |
Author | Michal Lubina |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2017-10-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3847410725 |
This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political “marriage of convenience”. Yet at the same time the relationship is stable, and will remain so. After all, bilateral relations are usually based on pragmatic interests and the pursuit of these interests is the very essence of foreign policy. And, as often happens in life, the most long-lasting marriages are those based on convenience. The highly complex, complicated, ambiguous and yet, indeed, successful relationship between Russia and China throughout the past 25 years is difficult to grasp theoretically. Russian and Chinese elites are hard-core realists in their foreign policies, and the neorealist school in international relations seems to be the most adequate one to research Sino-Russian relations. Realistically, throughout this period China achieved a multidimensional advantage over Russia. Yet, simultaneously Russia-China relations do not follow the patterns of power politics. Beijing knows its limits and does not go into extremes. Rather, China successfully seeks to build a longterm, stable relationship based on Chinese terms, where both sides gain, albeit China gains a little more. Russia in this agenda does not necessary lose; just gains a little less out of this asymmetric deal. Thus, a new model of bilateral relations emerges, which may be called – by paraphrasing the slogan of Chinese diplomacy – as “asymmetric win-win” formula. This model is a kind of “back to the past“ – a contemporary equivalent of the first model of Russia-China relations: the modus vivendi from the 17th century, achieved after the Nerchinsk treaty.
Politics, Economy, and Society in Contemporary China
Title | Politics, Economy, and Society in Contemporary China PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Brugger |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780804723503 |
This analytic overview of contemporary Chinese politics focuses on six major themes: agriculture, urban life and industry, law and policing, intellectuals, women and the family, and minority nationalities.