China's Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century

by Diana Lary

Book Overview

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009073621
• ISBN13: 9781009073622
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"