Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century PDF
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Transforming PaTriarchy TRANSFORMING PATRIARCHY chinese families in the TwenTy-firsT cenTury ediTed by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell universiTy of washingTon Press Seattle and London The publication of Transforming Patriarchy was supported by a grant from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. © 2017 by the University of Washington Press Printed and bound in the United States of America 21 20 19 18 17 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmit- ted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. universiTy of washingTon Press www.washington.edu/uwpress library of congress caTaloging-in-PublicaTion daTa Names: Santos, Gonçalo D., editor. | Harrell, Stevan, editor. Title: Transforming patriarchy : Chinese families in the twenty-first century / edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell. Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2016013675| isbn 9780295998978 (hardcover : alk. paper) | isbn 9780295999821 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Families—China—History—21st century. | Patriarchy—China. | Kinship—China. | China—Social conditions—21st century. Classification: lcc hQ684 .T745 2017 | ddc 306.85095109/05—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016013675 The paper used in this publication is acid-free and meets the minimum require- ments of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi Z39.48–1984. ∞ conTenTs Acknowledgments vii Note on Transcription ix inTroducTion Stevan Harrell and Gonçalo Santos 3 PART 1. RURAL RECONFIGURATIONS chaPTer one Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women’s Economic Contributions Melissa J. Brown 39 chaPTer Two From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China Lihong Shi 59 chaPTer Three Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China Helena Obendiek 74 chaPTer four Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China Gonçalo Santos 91 PART 2. CLASS, GENDER, AND PATRIARCHY IN URBAN SOCIETY chaPTer five Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong Andrew B. Kipnis 113 chaPTer six Being the Right Woman for “Mr. Right”: Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing Roberta Zavoretti 129 chaPTer seven Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power William Jankowiak and Xuan Li 146 chaPTer eighT Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains Elisabeth L. Engebretsen 163 chaPTer nine Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood Harriet Evans 182 PART 3: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW INSTITUTIONS chaPTer Ten Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? Suzanne Gottschang 201 chaPTer eleven Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate Kerstin Klein 219 chaPTer Twelve Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China Hong Zhang 234 Glossary 251 References 257 List of Contributors 285 Index 290 acknowledgmenTs The chapters in this book were first presented in June 2013 at a three-day conference organized at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale). We thank Chris Hann, director of the Department “Resil- ience and Transformation in Eurasia,” for making this conference possible through the generous provision of funding and logistic support. We thank also Bettina Mann, Berit Westwood, and Anke Meyer for helping coordi- nate the conference in Halle and for making it such a pleasure to organize and attend. The conference started in the best possible way with a keynote lecture from Rubie Watson. We would like to thank her for launching the debate and for her sharp-witted comments during the conference. We would also like to thank the discussants Francesca Bray, Janet Carsten, Deborah Davis, Henrike Donner, and Michael Herzfeld for their thought-provoking questions and comments. Michael deserves special thanks for his closing remarks during the conference and for writing a very insightful afterword that we were unable to include in the book for reasons of space. We were also unable to include a highly stimulating essay on female power written by Charles Stafford. We would like to thank him for his contribution and more generally for his unstinting intellectual support. Thanks also to Wu Xiujie and Sara Friedman for their conference papers and their critical input dur- ing the conference in Halle. As we progressed toward publication, it became very clear that the work of revision undertaken by all contributors benefited greatly from the lively atmosphere of critical discussion in Halle. We would like to thank everyone who attended the conference for their input. The writing of the introduction and the final revisions of individual chapters benefited significantly from the close readings of two anonymous reviewers for the University of Washington Press. We thank these reviewers for providing valuable comments and critiques that strengthened the coher- ence of the volume. Lorri Hagman’s support at the University of Wash- vii ington Press was essential, and we are immensely grateful for her expert guidance throughout the review and publication process. James Wright prepared the index. Lastly we acknowledge our gratitude to Chris Hann and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology for a generous publication subvention. Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell September 2015 viii acknowledgmenTs noTe on TranscriPTion Chinese words are transcribed from standard Chinese in the standard pin- yin orthography. A few words in chapter 4 are transcribed from Cantonese in the Yale orthography. Chinese characters are given in the glossary. ix
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