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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 analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents' experiences in the historical context of state efforts to improve "population quality," Love's Uncertainty reveals how global transformations are expressed in the most intimate of human experiences. Ultimately, the book offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency, examining how people discern, amid the myriad contingencies of life, the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled.

Title Love's Uncertainty : The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China / Teresa Kuan.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Berkeley, CA : University of California Press
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Childhood -- 2. The Horrific and the Exemplary -- 3. "The Heart Says One Thing but the Hand Does Another" -- 4. Creating Tiaojian, or, The Art of Disposition -- 5. The Defeat of Maternal Logic in Televisual Space -- 6. Investing in Human Capital, Conserving Life Energies -- 7. Banking in Affects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Extent 1 online resource (271 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010716340305171
MARC RECORDS
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