Love's Uncertainty : the politics and ethics of child rearing in contemporary china.
Kuan, Teresa.
Love's Uncertainty : the politics and ethics of child rearing in contemporary china. / Teresa Kuan. - California : The regents , 2015. - xiii,255p. : 24cm.
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.
9780520283503
International Book Distributors : 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Child rearing
History
China
649.10 KUA
Love's Uncertainty : the politics and ethics of child rearing in contemporary china. / Teresa Kuan. - California : The regents , 2015. - xiii,255p. : 24cm.
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.
9780520283503
International Book Distributors : 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Child rearing
History
China
649.10 KUA
