Author: Rong-Rong LoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Marriage Patterns and Modernization in Taiwan
Author: Rong-Rong LoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture
Author: A. KleinmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401749868
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this subject, including what fmdings are being made, what questions researched, what conundrums worried over. Since our fund of knowledge is obviously incomplete, we want our readers to be aware of the limits to what we know and to our acquisition of new knowledge. Although the subject is too vast and uncharted to support a comprehensive synthesis, in a few areas - e. g. , psychiatric epidemiology - enough is known for us to be able to present major reviews. The chapters themselves cover a variety of themes that we regard as both intrinsically interesting and deserving of more systematic evaluation. Many of the issues they address we believe to be valid concerns for comparative cross cultural studies. No attempt is made to artificially integrate these chapters, since the editors wish to highlight their distinctive interpretive frameworks as evidence of the rich variety of approaches that scholars take to this subject. 'We see this volume as a modest and self-consciously limited exploration. Here are some accounts and interpretations (but by no means all) of normal and ab normal behavior in the context of Chinese culture that we believe fashion a more discriminating understanding of at least a few important aspects of that subject.
Changing Patterns of Family Life in Taiwan
Author: Kao-Chiao HsiehPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society
Author: Stephen O. MurrayPublisher:
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Category : Taiwan
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Culture and Customs of Taiwan
Author: Gary M. DavisonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313032149
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Taiwanese society is in the midst of an immense, exciting effort to define itself, seeking to erect a contemporary identity upon the foundation of a highly distinctive history. This book provides a thorough overview of Taiwanese cultural life. The introduction familiarizes students and interested readers with the island's key geographical and demographic features, and provides a chronological summary of Taiwanese history. In the following chapters, Davison and Reed reveal the uniqueness of Taiwan, and do not present it simply as the laboratory of traditional Chinese culture that some anthropologists of the 1950s through the 1970s sought when mainland China was not accessible. The authors examine how religious devotion in Taiwan is different from China in that the selected deities are those most relevant to the needs of the Taiwanese people. Literature and art, particularly of the 20th century, reflect the Taiwanese quest for identity more than the grand Chinese tradition. The Taiwanese architecture, festivals and leisure activities, music and dance, cuisine and fashion, are also highlighted topics. The final chapter presents the most recent information regarding children and education, and explores the importance of the Taiwanese family in the context of meaningful relationships amongst acquaintances, friends, and institutions that make up the social universe of the Taiwanese. This text is a lively treatment of one of the world's most dynamic societies.
Taiwan
Author: Publisher: Monash University Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Chinese Americans in the Heartland
Author: Huping LingPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978826281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Introduction: Defining the Asian American heartland and its significance -- Transnational migration and businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s-1930s -- Building "hop alley" : myth and reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s-1930s -- Intellectual tradition of heartland : Chicago School and beyond -- Family and marriage in heartland, 1880s-1940s -- Living heartland : 1860s-1950s -- Governing heartland : on Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966 -- The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the formation of cultural community in St. Louis -- The tripartite community in Chicago -- Conclusion: Convergences and divergences.
Variation in Employment Patterns of Married Women in Taiwan
Author: Chih-Wen WuThe Women Of Rural Asia
Author: Robert Orr WhytePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000612473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This study looks at the social and economic status, family and workforce roles, and quality of life of women in the rural sectors of monsoonal and equatorial Asia, from Pakistan to Japan, where life often is characterized by unemployment, underemployment, and poverty.
A Comparative Study of Women and the Modernization Process in Taiwan and Japan
Author: Natalie Robinson SinanianPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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