Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China

by Teresa Kuan

Love's Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents' experiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283481
• ISBN13: 9780520283480
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.1"