Diana Lary

China's Grandmothers (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009075244
• Artikelnr.: 66177130

Autorenporträt

Diana Lary is Professor Emerita of Modern Chinese History at University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
1. Precious treasures
2. Archetypes
3. Baby seekers
4. Child carers'
5. Ruling the roost
6. Old age
7. Grandfathers
8. Transmitters of culture
9. Absent parents
10. Left behind children
11. Pleasures of old age
12. Leaving this life
13. The future of old age
14. Personal notes
Afterword.