Love's Uncertainty

Love's Uncertainty

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Explores the anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in China. This book reveals how global transformations are expressed in the intimate of human experiences. It offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency, examining how people discern, amid the myriad contingencies of life, the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled.

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Love's Uncertainty by Teresa Kuan

Explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. This book reveals how global transformations are expressed in the most intimate of human experiences. Ultimately, the book offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency, examining how people discern, amid the myriad contingencies of life, the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled.
"Provides a scholarly yet eminently readable antidote to the thrills that global readers took from the tiger mother popular debates about whether children benefit from ambitious, autocratic parenting" Pacific Affairs
Teresa Kuan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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ISBN 13 9780520283503
ISBN 10 0520283503
Title Love's Uncertainty
Author Teresa Kuan
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 2015-02-27
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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