Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village

by Yuen,Sun-Pong

• ISBN13: 9780765612540
• ISBN10: 0765612542
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-11-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface to the Expanded English Edition	vii
Preface to the Chinese Edition	xi
Theoretical Framework: Familism, Women's Liberation, and Autonomy	3	(22)
Baixiu Village: Past and Present	25	(12)
I. Finding a Partner, Love, and Marriage
Marriage, Familism, and Autonomy	37	(4)
The Story of Uncle Qiu: The Dictates of the Parents, the Words of the Matchmaker	41	(16)
The Story of Zhichao: The Transition from Tradition to Modernity	57	(16)
The Story of Wang Qiming: A Marriage in the 1990s	73	(16)
II. Tradition, Women, and the Interpretation of the Self
Women in Chinese Villages: A Review of the Research	89	(6)
Wang Guizhen: Growing Up Under the Reform and Opening-Up Policy	95	(19)
``A Female's Need for Fulfillment'' in the Eyes of Traditional Women	114	(27)
III. Sex and the Sex Trade Under the Reform and Opening-Up Policy
Familial Culture, Gender Relationships, and Sexual Indulgence	141	(5)
Sex, the Sex Trade, and Extramarital Relationships in the Eyes of Men	146	(20)
Wealth, Materialism, and the Feminine Viewpoint	166	(24)
The Paradox of Development in Baixiu Village	190	(11)
Reflections on Methodology	201	(18)
IV. Epilogue: Baixiu Village at the Turn of the Century
Baixiu Village at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century	219	(25)
Rural Political Reform: The Baixiu Village Committee Election	244	(33)
Notes	277	(14)
Index	291