Sha, Heila (2017) Care and ageing in North-West China. LIT Verlag, Münster, Berlin. ISBN 9783643908742

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Abstract

This book presents a pioneering ethnographic exploration of practices and ideologies of eldercare in the bingtuan - a paramilitary state organization composed largely of migrants (most of them very poor) to the north-western frontier province of Xinjiang since the 1949 Communist Revolution. In exploring the discourses and actions of the elderly, their relatives, and the state, the book uncovers the ways in which macro-level economic and social transformations are linked to the material and emotional realities of ordinary Chinese people. The light shed on gender and inter-generational relations within the modern urbanized bingtuan illuminates ageing, care and social support mechanisms in an era of rapid social change globally.

Item Type:	Book
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > Anthropology
Depositing User:	Sharon Krummel
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2020 10:52
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2020 10:52
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/89623

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