Family, ethnicity and state in Chinese culture under the impact of globalization /

This collection of papers from a project of the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan, unites anthropologists in an international collaborative effort to reexamine the dynamics of family, ethnicity and the nation-state in China and in overseas Chinese society.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan
Other Authors:	Han, Min (Ethnologist) (Editor), Kawai, Hironao, 1977- (Editor), Wong, Heung Wah, 1963- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Encino, California : Bridge21, [2017].
Subjects:	Families > China. China > Ethnic relations. China > Civilization. Globalization > Social aspects > China. Language and culture > China. Ethnology > China.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Family, ethnicity and state : historical and global perspectives on Chinese societies / HAN Min & KAWAI Hironao
Part 1. The Individual Person, family and state from a historical perspective
Chapter 1. The concept of "house" in the family system of East Asian societies / SUENARI Michio
Chapter 2. A millennium in the history of lineage (Zongzu and Jiazu) in China : as seen in Jiangxi and Guangdong / HE Xi and FAURE David
Chapter 3. Ethnicity and the degree-holding elite in Qing-era Taiwan : the 1803 restoration of the prefectural Confucian temple / COHEN Mayron L
Chapter 4. What is Chinese kinship and what is not? / WONG Heung-Wa
Chapter 5. A person's being "raw," "half-cooked" and "cooked" in Chinese culture / ZHOU Xing
Part 2. Ethnicity, nation and cultural construction in the socialist state
Chapter 6. Confucius between the state and society in contemporary China / KIM Kwang Ok
Chapter 7. Between Confucian discourse and practice / KAWAGUCHI Yukihiro
Chapter 8. Political pilgrimage and sacred sites in socialist China : Shaoshan, the birthplace of Mao Zedong / HAN Min
Chapter 9. Social change in the era of globalization : urbanized rural community in Qingdao, North China / SASAKI Mamoru
Chapter 10. Remembered Sufi saint : reconstruction of a "Gongbei" and the struggles over the leadership in Ningxia / SAWAI Mitsuo
Part 3. Dynamic ethnicity and cultural flow in transnational conditions
Chapter 11. Family, education and ethnic identity among Yunnan Chinese in Northern Thailand / HUANG Shu-min
Chapter 12. Laotong, an alternative kinship : a profile of the network between Zhuang in China and Nung, Tay in Vietnam / TSUKADA Shigeyuki
Chapter 13. The construction of a sacred landscape by the Hakka in Southern Vietnam / KAWAI Hironao and WU Yunxia
Chapter 14. Changes in minority life seen through the transformation of dress : a case study of Hmong in Yunnan, China / MIYAWAKI Chie
Chapter 15. Urban Aboriginal people and education in Western Canada / PENG Xuefang.