Chinas Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century Lary Diana
Chinas Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century Lary Diana Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil…
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Chinas Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century Lary Diana
Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. 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. 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.
Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and 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.