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Separation and Reunion in Modern China
By Charles Stafford
209 pages
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- Cambridge University Press
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- Cambridge, England
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Synopsis
In this distinctive 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 festivals of reunion, rituals for the sending-off of gods, silent leave-takings, poetic words of parting, and bitter political rhetoric. Stafford examines how these idioms and practices help people situate themselves in historical communities, and how they are deployed in official Chinese rhetoric concerning ...
In this distinctive 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 festivals of reunion, rituals for the sending-off of gods, silent leave-takings, poetic words of parting, and bitter political rhetoric. Stafford examines how these idioms and practices help people situate themselves in historical communities, and how they are deployed in official Chinese rhetoric concerning Taiwan. The discussion of these everyday rituals offers rich insights into Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture.
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Table of contents
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- Separation and Reunion in Modern China *
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Introduction: An Anthropology of Separation 1
- 1 - Tow Festivals of Reunion 30
- 2 - The Etiquette of Parting and Return 55
- 3 - Greeting and Sending-Off the Dead 70
- 4 - The Ambivalent Threshold 87
- 5 - Commensality as Reunion 99
- 6 - Women and the Obligation to Return 110
- 7 - Developing a Sense of History 127
- 8 - Classical Narratives of Separation and Reunion 144
- 9 - The Politics of Separation and Reunion in China and Taiwan 156
- Conclusion - The Separation Constraint 174
- Notes 179
- Separation and Reunion in Modern China *
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Introduction: An Anthropology of Separation 1
- 1 - Tow Festivals of Reunion 30
- 2 - The Etiquette of Parting and Return 55
- 3 - Greeting and Sending-Off the Dead 70
- 4 - The Ambivalent Threshold 87
- 5 - Commensality as Reunion 99
- 6 - Women and the Obligation to Return 110
- 7 - Developing a Sense of History 127
- 8 - Classical Narratives of Separation and Reunion 144
- 9 - The Politics of Separation and Reunion in China and Taiwan 156
- Conclusion - The Separation Constraint 174
- Notes 179
- References 192
- Index 200