| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (179-199) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Charles Stafford explores the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion, based upon his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China. He gives a vivid account of everyday rituals, and examines how they help people settle into communities, and to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Separation (Psychology) -- China.
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Separation (Psychology) |
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China. |
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Reunions -- China.
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Reunions. |
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China -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stafford, Charles. Separation and reunion in modern China. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000 (DLC) 00126980 |
| ISBN |
051105002X (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511050022 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511151640 |
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9780511151644 |
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9780521780179 (hardback) |
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0521780179 (hardback) |
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0511016174 (electronic book) |
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9780511016172 (electronic book) |
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9780521784344 (paperback) |
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0521784344 (paperback) |
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9780511488931 (ebook) |
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0511488939 (ebook) |
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0521780179 |
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0521784344 (paperback) |
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