China's Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage:Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999;Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy;On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China

2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
HELEN F. SIU
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Family Change ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration

China’s Century

Tracing China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen F. Siu
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Family Change ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration

This essay reviews the following books: Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949–1999, by Yan Yunxiang, Only Hope: Coming of Age under China’s One-Child Policy, by Vanessa Fong, and On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, edited by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka.

scholarly journals Poor and Blank: History's Marks and the Photographies of Displacement

2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration ◽  
Historical Remains

Observing a conjunction between massive rural-to-urban migration and the recent documentary turn in Chinese art, this essay suggests some of the ways documentary photography works as a medium of historical thinking in contemporary China. Through the work of the photographer Zhang Xinmin, it examines the cultural politics of blankness and marked surfaces as representational strategies for exploring the intersection of historical remains and mass migration.

Neo-traditional Child Surnaming in Contemporary China: Women’s Rights as Veiled Patriarchy

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1001-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Qi
Keyword(s):  
Married Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The One ◽  
Mother To Child

A sparse sociological literature on surnaming reports predominantly western cases. This article examines surnaming practices in present-day China, where married women universally retain their surname as part of a national political project. The one-child policy disrupts the practice of providing to a child his/her father’s surname. Wives from daughter-only families increasingly provide their surname to their child(ren). Various social forms of mother-surname-to-child practices are discussed, including those involving zhao-xu (uxorilocal marriage) and liang-tou-dun (‘two places to stay’). The article reports a gender strategy of mother-to-child surnaming that paradoxically enforces patriarchal inheritance and obligation. A concept, ‘veiled patriarchy’, is developed and applied to surnaming practices in contemporary China.

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