Chinese Working-Class Lives

Getting by in Taiwan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2865264
AutoresStephen Feuchtwang, Hill Gates, Mark C Thelin (autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Data de publicação2018-05-26
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoChinese Working-Class Lives (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501719912
OpenAlexW4237614139
Open LibraryOL51035133M
ISBN9781501719912
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas55

I wrote this book to help students and others with a new interest in things Chinese to encounter the culture of Taiwans ordinary working people whose livelihood depends on their hands, backs, and wits.Too little of Chinese life is accessible to most of us in the West: Taiwan and the People s Republic of China are distant and expensive for travelers, though Americans who have been in those places are no longer rarities.Even for those who make the trip, however, Chinese societies turn a neutral-tofriendly mask toward most stranger guests.Getting behind it, in any part of China, is difficult but worthwhile, for only through knowing another society can we experience both the power of culture to shape our lives and the recognition of a common humanity that transcends cultural differences.Studying Taiwans working class offers these experiences in full measure.The inevitable conflicts and misunderstandings between our two old, proud, and widely different civilizations must be balanced by mutual efforts at compromise and comprehension.This book is one such effort.Much anthropology fieldwork begins with direct, personal encounters, as the anthropologist comes to know the women and men who will provide most of the material from which to fashion an image of their culture.Often that image is conveyed through carefully constructed abstractions and generalizations that all but obscure individual variation and sense of person.Here I decided to include instead not only a summary of my own understanding of Taiwan s working-class people but also life histories of nine of those people, in their own words.Thus the reader may juxtapose, and sometimes contrast, my observations about this small islands political economy, religious traditions, and status of women with the concrete particularities of real and singular lives.Readers, I hope, will appreciate the

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