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Stafford, Charles.

Separation and reunion in modern China [electronic resource] / Charles Stafford. - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - viii, 202 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (179-199) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2005.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA0-W4030

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Separation (Psychology)--China.
Reunions--China.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--Social life and customs.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS721 / .S693 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 302/.1