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List of Illustration | p. ix |
List of Contributors | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Introduction: Chinese kinship metamorphoses | p. 1 |
Motion, Migration and Urbanity | p. 27 |
'Families we create': women's kinship in rural China as spatialized practice | p. 29 |
Living a single life: the plight and adaptations of the bachelors in Yishala | p. 48 |
Practicing connectiveness as kinship in urban China | p. 67 |
Intimacy, Gender and Power | p. 93 |
The ties that bind: female homosociality and the production of intimacy in rural China | p. 95 |
The 'stove-family' and the process of kinship in rural South China | p. 112 |
Actually existing Chinese matriarchy | p. 137 |
The gender of work and the production of kinship value in Taiwan and China | p. 154 |
State, Body and Civilization | p. 179 |
Becoming a mother in Late Imperial China: maternal doubles and the ambiguities of fertility | p. 181 |
Education and the governing of child-centered relatedness | p. 204 |
Disruption, commemoration and family repair | p. 223 |
Afterword | p. 246 |
Index | p. 249 |
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