Spatial struggles: Postcolonial complex, state disenchantment, and popular reappropriation of space in rural Southeast China

Article Abstract:

The modern experience of a certain kind of space that was not primary in their theoretical concerns, spaces of the sacred or divine and of what modernity calls 'religion' is examined. Wenzhou sites such as ancestor tombs, deity temples, churches, and ancestor halls are all examples of such archaic spaces which have a role to play in modernity but are excluded from dominant representations of space.

Religious buildings, Chinese culture

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State of the field: Women in China's long twentieth century

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English-language scholarship on women in twentieth-century China is reviewed. The scholarship on marriage and the family is discussed and work on sexuality and gender, labor, and modernity is considered.

Marriage, Family, Sex (Psychology), Sexuality

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The genealogical mentality in modern China

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The author examines the importance of genealogy and kinship to the people of the Xuanwei district of Yunnan province of China.

Genealogy, Kinship

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