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Separation and reunion in modern China /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Separation and reunion in modern China // Charles Stafford.
remainder title:	Separation & Reunion in Modern China
Author:	Stafford, Charles,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Separation (Psychology) - China. -
Subject:	China -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488931
ISBN:	9780511488931 (ebook)

Separation and reunion in modern China /
Stafford, Charles,

Separation and reunion in modern China /Separation & Reunion in Modern ChinaCharles Stafford. - 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511488931 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555630
Separation (Psychology)
--China.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

714969
China

LC Class. No.: DS721 / .S693 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 302/.1

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