China's Grandmothers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316513354)

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 light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.

Author: Diana Lary
ISBN-10: 1316513351
ISBN-13: 9781316513354
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2022
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2023