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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      09 November 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511488931
      9780521780179
      9780521784344
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488931
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.29kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Organisational Sociology, Asian Studies, Sociology
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    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.

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    ‘The intimate vignettes of family life and relations, the vivid portrayal of the often very unfamiliar ways in which intimacy and affection are expressed, are telling, often delightful or affecting - and alas uncommon in Chinese ethnography today. This is a work I shall gladly use to introduce my undergraduates to contemporary China in a way that will capture their attention without simplifying its complexity.’

    Francesca Bray University of California - Santa Barbara

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