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Separation and reunion in modern China [electronic resource] / Charles Stafford.

By: Stafford, Charles.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: viii, 202 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Separation (Psychology) -- China | Reunions -- China | China -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 302/.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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302/.1 (Browse shelf) Available

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.