{"product_id":"embedded-generations-family-life-and-social-change-in-contemporary-china-paperback","title":"Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLiu Jieyu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eEmbedded Generations\u003c\/i\u003e, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Grounding her account in the analysis of 260 life history narratives and rich ethnographic data, Liu traces the changing ways families have navigated such experiential milestones as childhood, courtship and marriage, sex and intimacy, and aging over the past seven decades. Using generation, the urban-rural divide, and gender as her analytical lenses, she provides an alternative narrative of Chinese family life, countering the dominant Eurocentric accounts of modernization and family change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiu proposes the concept of \"embedded generations\" to capture the ongoing relational and socioeconomic shaping of family life, taking account of variation within and across generations, and of both intergenerational transmission and individual adaptations to changing conditions of everyday life. Resisting the notion that social and family changes are linear historical progressions, Liu reveals a family portrait of complex change, continuity, and diversity. Rather than a straightforward transition from the traditional to the modern and postmodern, she argues, changes in Chinese family life have entailed the adaptation and \"re-serving\" of traditional ideas and practices to produce a bricolage of modern and traditional elements.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiu Jieyu \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of sociology and China studies at SOAS University of London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe China Quarterly.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47367659651250,"sku":"9780691258409","price":50.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/WFo8Swe-4T9780691258409.webp?v=1777568984","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/embedded-generations-family-life-and-social-change-in-contemporary-china-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}