The Extraordinary in the Mundane

Auteur
Becky Yang Hsu is associate professor of sociology at Georgetown University, where she is also affiliated with the Asian Studies Program and is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Her most recent book is The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life (coedited with Richard Madsen, 2019).

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This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.

Contenu
Introduction: The Extraordinary in the Mundane, by Becky Yang Hsu

1. Love for a Child: Parental Advocacy for Social Inclusion, by Yunxiang Yan
2. Family Metaphors: Inequality, Culture War, and Imperiled Common Good in China and the United States, by Richard Madsen
3. Comfort in Group Experience: The Frenzy for Psy-Training, by Teresa Kuan
4. Rebooting a Family: Helping Children in Internet Addiction Treatment Camps, by Yichen Rao
5. Dreams of Marriage: Social Media and Disconnect for Young Married Women, by Lynn Lin Sun
6. Good Care in Childbirth: C-Sections as Individual or Collective Decisions, by Gonçalo Santos
7. Repaired Reflections: The Associative Act of Preparing Burial Clothing, by Becky Yang Hsu
   Acknowledgments
   Bibliography
   Contributors
   Index