Book launch: Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), SOAS University of London
- Room
- Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT)
- Event type
- Launch
About this event
The book launch of Professor Jieyu Liu's latest book Embedded Generations will begin with an introduction of the book, followed by a Q&A session and drinks reception.
With Embedded Generations, Liu 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 modernisation and family change.
Registration
This event is open to the public and free to attend, however registration is required. Please note that this event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.
Organiser
About the speaker
Liu Jieyu
Liu Jieyu is professor of sociology and China studies at SOAS University of London. She is the author of Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation and Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work and the joint editor-in-chief of The China Quarterly.
This event will be chaired by Emeritus Professor Bob Ash, SOAS China Institute.
Contact
Email: sci@soas.ac.uk
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