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Making Couples: Kinship, Intimacy and Consumption in Contemporary Urban China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making Couples: Kinship, Intimacy and Consumption in Contemporary Urban China./
Author:	Chen, Chen.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-08A.
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10641298
ISBN:	9780355519990

Making Couples: Kinship, Intimacy and Consumption in Contemporary Urban China.
Chen, Chen.

Making Couples: Kinship, Intimacy and Consumption in Contemporary Urban China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 299 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

After three decades of economic reform and privatization, Chinese urban society has undergone many deep transformations. In the recent years, family formation and spouse selection (ze'ou) has become a heated zone of debate in Chinese social life. TV reality shows featuring blind dating are viewed millions of times by Chinese audiences each week. The fast-growing online dating services successfully attract more than twenty million registered users. Meanwhile, spouse-selection has become problematized in Chinese public discourses, and continuously causes tensions and anxieties in the everyday life of Chinese singles and their families. My research explores the following questions: Why has spouse-selection become such a phenomenal cultural issue that it not only perplexes singles and their families but also captures the attention of the general public in urban Beijing? How are marriages and intimate relationships "made" in the context of China's rapid social transformation? What kinds of personal and identity-related concerns are voiced and negotiated by Chinese singles during the social processes of "making couples" ( xiangqin)? By focusing on the practice of "making couples," this dissertation examines the intersection of kinship, intimacy and consumption in post-Mao urban China. Based on 18 months of multi-site fieldwork in Beijing, my research investigates how urban middle class singles and their families negotiate identities and social relations through a series of mate-selection activities. In particular, this dissertation focuses on the experience of making couples, linking it to changing family and gender relations, the rise of a capitalist "free market", and the formation of new subjectivities in post-Mao China. I argue that Xiangqin is not only a set of marriage strategies, but is also a social pivot that (re-)connects many seemingly separate social domains: Xiangqin negotiates intimacy and the capitalist market, redrawing the boundary between the nei (internal) and wai (external), the public and the private, the "traditional" and the "modern," as well as the "self" and the "others." In xiangqin, a person's cultural identity attached to gender, class, family and generation is repeatedly questioned, negotiated and (re)produced. In this dissertation, I explore the multiple dimensions of xiangqin practice in terms of its diversity in forms and complexity in contents. More broadly, the dissertation interprets the recent Chinese cultural turn towards the "family" and intimate relationships as individuals' social strategies to rebuild meaningful social connections, in response to increasing uncertainties and risks introduced by the rise of "free market" in the past 30 years. My inquiry mainly focuses on three major field sites in Beijing: Parental xiangqin in Zhongshan Park, online dating experience on a dating website, and a qinggan (emotion and sentiment) support group that addresses relationship-related personal problems.

ISBN: 9780355519990Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.
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China

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