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Love's uncertainty :

0520283481

0520283503

9780520283480

9780520283503

0520959361

9780520959361

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Love's uncertainty :

[Book]

the politics and ethics of child rearing in contemporary China /

Teresa Kuan

xiii, 255 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229 -244) and index

The politics of childhood -- The horrific and the exemplary -- "The heart says one thing but the hand does another" -- Creating Tiaojian, or, the art of disposition -- The defeat of maternal logic in televisual space -- Investing in human capital, conserving the life energies -- Banking in affects

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"Love's Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with textual analyses of popular childrearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, the author describes the mundane dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of competing for limited resources. Situating their experiences in the historical context of state efforts to 'improve population quality,' this account reveals how global transformations articulate with the most intimate of human experiences. Ultimately, the book offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency in following how people, amidst the myriad contingencies of life, try to discern the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled"--Provided by publisher

Child rearing-- China

Child rearing-- China-- History-- 21st century

Education-- Parent participation-- China

Homebound instruction-- China

Parenting-- China

Kuan, Teresa

20150610112548.0

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