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Author: Xiying Wang Publisher: Open Dissertation Press ISBN: 9781374671591 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This dissertation, "Dating Violence in Post-socialist Beijing" by Xiying, Wang, 王曦影, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled DATING VIOLENCE IN POST-SOCIALIST BEIJING Submitted by WANG Xiying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in May 2007 Beijing, the historically and politically important city in China, is a cosmopolitan, urbanized and rapidly developing city with a high degree of culture hybridity. This qualitative study explores how Beijing young men and women interpret the meaning of dating, love, gender, sexuality and how they make sense of their violent dating experiences. In other words, dating violence becomes a site to observe the social transformation of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Post-socialist Beijing (Dirlik, 1989; Litzinger, 2002). There are extensive Chinese studies on domestic violence but not on dating violence, and this study fills the gap by focusing on this rather new research topic for China. This study looks at dating violence as an important area of study in its own right rather than as a topic subsumed within the larger subject of domestic violence. The problem with existing studies in the area is that they mostly adopt the approach of second wave feminism in the West without a critical interrogation of its applicability within the Chinese social context, and portray women as victims and men as perpetrators. This study establishes a new theoretical framework appropriating insights of third wave feminism and postsocialism for the understanding of young people's dating experience. Based on data collected through individual interviews and focus groups from 2003 to 2006, this study pays special attention to the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, class, race, age, as well as that of the state and market in shaping Beijing young people's dating lives. Further special attention is given to the combination of the micro-politics of individual subjectivity, resistance, and desire, on the one hand, and the macro-politics of post-socialist China on the other. Data analysis for this study starts with a portrayal of dating geography filled with power struggles associated with violence. Women's aggression in dating relationships and their experience of sexual coercion is the apparent paradox addressed. It is enticing to note that some young women who seem to be aggressive in daily life are relatively submissive when it comes to sex, which becomes the main puzzle to be solved in this thesis. It is argued that young people develop many strategies to establish their agency and subjectivity in the process of relating to predominant social discourses regarding dating, gender, and sexual hegemony. In this study, state discourse, flexible market, and culture hybridity (Dirlik, 1989; Litzinger, 2002), the three characteristics of postsocialism, establish a basis for discourse analysis. These three forces respectively play their varying, greater or lesser roles in influencing Beijing young people's dating lives. I argue that it is still important to examine the interconnection between state, market, and gender rather than over-emphasizing the role of the market. I also point out that Confucian ideas in violence research represent a cultural dislocation, and demonstrate how this dislocation exists in young people's dating lives. (word count: 469) DOI: 10.5353/th_b3831013 Subjects: Dating violence - China - Beijing
Author: Xiying Wang Publisher: Open Dissertation Press ISBN: 9781374671591 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This dissertation, "Dating Violence in Post-socialist Beijing" by Xiying, Wang, 王曦影, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled DATING VIOLENCE IN POST-SOCIALIST BEIJING Submitted by WANG Xiying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in May 2007 Beijing, the historically and politically important city in China, is a cosmopolitan, urbanized and rapidly developing city with a high degree of culture hybridity. This qualitative study explores how Beijing young men and women interpret the meaning of dating, love, gender, sexuality and how they make sense of their violent dating experiences. In other words, dating violence becomes a site to observe the social transformation of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Post-socialist Beijing (Dirlik, 1989; Litzinger, 2002). There are extensive Chinese studies on domestic violence but not on dating violence, and this study fills the gap by focusing on this rather new research topic for China. This study looks at dating violence as an important area of study in its own right rather than as a topic subsumed within the larger subject of domestic violence. The problem with existing studies in the area is that they mostly adopt the approach of second wave feminism in the West without a critical interrogation of its applicability within the Chinese social context, and portray women as victims and men as perpetrators. This study establishes a new theoretical framework appropriating insights of third wave feminism and postsocialism for the understanding of young people's dating experience. Based on data collected through individual interviews and focus groups from 2003 to 2006, this study pays special attention to the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, class, race, age, as well as that of the state and market in shaping Beijing young people's dating lives. Further special attention is given to the combination of the micro-politics of individual subjectivity, resistance, and desire, on the one hand, and the macro-politics of post-socialist China on the other. Data analysis for this study starts with a portrayal of dating geography filled with power struggles associated with violence. Women's aggression in dating relationships and their experience of sexual coercion is the apparent paradox addressed. It is enticing to note that some young women who seem to be aggressive in daily life are relatively submissive when it comes to sex, which becomes the main puzzle to be solved in this thesis. It is argued that young people develop many strategies to establish their agency and subjectivity in the process of relating to predominant social discourses regarding dating, gender, and sexual hegemony. In this study, state discourse, flexible market, and culture hybridity (Dirlik, 1989; Litzinger, 2002), the three characteristics of postsocialism, establish a basis for discourse analysis. These three forces respectively play their varying, greater or lesser roles in influencing Beijing young people's dating lives. I argue that it is still important to examine the interconnection between state, market, and gender rather than over-emphasizing the role of the market. I also point out that Confucian ideas in violence research represent a cultural dislocation, and demonstrate how this dislocation exists in young people's dating lives. (word count: 469) DOI: 10.5353/th_b3831013 Subjects: Dating violence - China - Beijing
Author: Tiantian Zheng Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350263451 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 224
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Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, this book brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negotiations about, and contestations against violence, and men's narratives about the reasons for their violence. Using an innovative methodology - online chat groups, it foregrounds the role of history, structural inequalities, and the cultural system of power hierarchy in situating and constructing intimate partner violence. Centering on men and women's narratives about violence, this book connects intimate partner violence with invisible structural violence – the historical, cultural, political, economic, and legal context that gives rise to and perpetuates violence against women. Through examining the ways in which women's lives are constrained by various forms of violence, hierarchy, and inequality, this book shows that violence against women is a structural issue that is historically produced and politically and culturally engaged.
Author: Xiying Wang Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351691651 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 267
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This book explores young people’s experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted in Beijing over a decade, and focusing especially on dating violence, the book reveals provides insights into a wide range of issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary China. It shows how young Chinese people’s attitudes and behaviors are changing as urban China develops rapidly, and how their experience of dating violence and meaning-making are affected by age, gender, location and class.
Author: Kristen Zaleski Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190927097 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 473
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"It was a warm fall evening in Beijing when the idea for this book was born. Three social work academics, one Chinese and two Americans, discussed the state of the world for women in the 21st century and the longing for a text that could describe the struggles, and the successes of women in the fight for equity and safety throughout the world, on the table of Beijing style hotpot. As professors and feminist researchers, three of us share some similar but different research interests; Kristen's work is extensively on sexual violence in the United States; Annalisa, as a Philippine American Scholar, has been working on sex trafficking issues in Philippines and throughout the world; while Xiying, as a Chinese scholar with overseas training, has paid attention to dating violence, domestic violence, and school-bullying. Through the discussion, we found that though our research topics are different, the underlying issues of gender inequality and the surrounding social structures are similar, no matter the place on earth. A short time later, we invited Eugenia whose expertise on feminist global issues, and her being of mixed heritage and from Latin America, as well as her vast editorial experience, could help us make this book everything we knew it needed to be for maximum impact. We felt a compelling need to create a book in a collaborative spirit to include expert contributors that would provide a global lens to survey parts of the world - not just one region, one race, one voice- and study the intersectional issues of gender, race, class, culture, politics that arise in gender- based violence and the advocacy efforts to fight injustice and promote equality for women and girls, across the world"--
Author: Ethan Michelson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108858562 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 573
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Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson reveals that women have borne the brunt of a dramatic intensification since the mid-2000s of a decades-long practice of denying divorce requests. This book takes the reader upstream to the institutional sources of China's clampdown on divorce and downstream to its devastating and highly gendered human toll, showing how judges in an overburdened court system clear their oppressive dockets at the expense of women's lawful rights and interests. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Chinese courts, judicial decision-making, family law, gender violence, and the limits and possibilities of the globalization of law.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Jamie J. Zhao Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040015190 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 398
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This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities. Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively situates Chinese gender and sexuality in transnational and transcultural contexts. It also spotlights nonnormative practices and emancipatory potentials within mainstream, heterosexual-dominated and patriarchally structured settings. It serves as a definitive study, research and resource guide for emerging gender and sexuality issues in the Chinese-speaking world. This Handbook covers interdisciplinary methodologies, perspectives and topics, including: History Literature Art Fashion Migration Translation Sex and desire Film and television Digital media Star and fan cultures Fantasies and lives of women and LGBTQ+ groups Social movements Transnational feminist and queer politics Paying acute attention to nonnormative genders and sexualities and emphasising the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity and class, this Handbook offers an essential, field-defining text to Chinese gender and sexuality studies.
Author: Michelle Ronksley-Pavia Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350274291 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 241
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In this collection, both individually and collectively, the authors explore the gendering of women's experiences in academia through the lens of narratives of lived experience. This is a cogent theme throughout the book, reflecting on women's experiences as intersectional-always raced, classed, gendered, nuanced and complex. Jointly, the chapters provide important insights into individual and collective contemporary women's experiences in academia from international perspectives, such as gender equity, barriers to success, and achievement. This comprehensive volume provides a reference point for all women and their colleagues working in universities and colleges across the world.
Author: Magdalena Wong Publisher: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9888528424 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 175
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Everyday Masculinities in 21st-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men argues that a moral dimension in Chinese masculinity is of growing significance in fast-changing China. ‘Able-responsible men’—those who can create wealth and shoulder responsibilities—have replaced the ‘moneyed elite’ of the earlier reform-and-opening-up era as the dominant male ideal. With vivid and highly readable case studies, Wong presents a compelling account of the forces that coerce men to live up to the able-responsible standard. She demonstrates the impact this pressure has on the lives of not only boys and men, but also on women, and shows how it invites both complicit and resistant reactions. The book lays bare the socio-political context that nurtures the cultural expressions of hegemonic masculinity under the rule of Xi Jinping. The president himself has emerged in public consciousness as the embodiment of the ideal able-responsible man. Based on anthropological fieldwork in Nanchong, Sichuan, the book provides new perspectives on many topical issues that China faces. These include urbanization, labour migration, the one-child policy, love and marriage, gender and intergenerational dynamics, hierarchical male relationships, and the rise of mass displays of nationalism. ‘In this richly informative book, Dr Wong gives us an intimate picture of masculinities in a contemporary Chinese city. She explores the role of wealth in definitions of masculinity, the moral dimension in gender imagery, the changing desires of women, and the role of the state—including a striking account of the gender strategies of President Xi. More than a local study, this book provides valuable ideas for understanding gender, men, and masculinities in the contemporary world.’ —Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney ‘Magdalena Wong asks wonderful, original questions. Her study might be one of the most pioneering investigations into Chinese family relations I have read. The strength of her book lies in its insight into kinship and cultural continuities and changes. The rich, nuanced case studies can make her book become an important addition to our ongoing studies on Chinese family.’ —William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Author: Wang Pan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131768883X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese--foreign marriages have profound implications for China’s cultural identity. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the different types of Chinese--foreign marriage, and divorce, and the changing scale and changing patterns of such marriages, and divorces, and examines how such marriages and divorces are portrayed in different kinds of media. It shows how those types of Chinese--foreign marriage where Chinese patriotism and Chinese values are preserved are depicted favourably, whereas other kinds of Chinese--foreign marriage, especially those where Chinese women marry foreign nationals, are disapproved of, male foreign nationals being seen as having a propensity to infidelity, deception, violence and taking advantage of Chinese women. The book contrasts the portrayal of Chinese--foreign marriage with the reality, and with the depiction of Chinese--Chinese marriage where many of the same problems apply. Overall, the book sheds much light on changing social processes and on current imaginings of China’s place in the world.