Separation and reunion in modern China
By: Charles Stafford.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Separation (Psychology) -- China; Reunions -- China; China -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (179-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: an anthropology of separation; title: 1. Two festival of reunion; title: 2. The etiquette of parting and return; title: 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead; title: 4. The ambivalent threshold; title: 5. Commensality as reunion; title: 6. Women and the obligation to return; title: 7. Developing a sense of history; title: 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion; title: 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan; title: Conclusion: the separation constraint; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.