Hakka Women in Tulou Villages

Social and Cultural Constructs of Hakka Identity in Modern and Contemporary Fujian, China

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-90-04-51818-6

Verlag: Brill

Erscheinungstermin: 23.06.2022

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Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Acronyms

Introduction

The Theoretical Framework in the Research

Rural/Urban Dialectics in Twentieth-Century China

The Han/Non-Han Dichotomy and the Nation-Building Process in Modern China

The Hakka Ethnicity/Cultural Issue

Existing Relevant Studies

The Yongding Area, the Tulou Issue, and Modern Approaches

Contemporary Studies on Hakka Women in Rural Villages in Fujian

The Legacy of Gender Studies on Rural Chinese Women

Methodology

The Villages

The Informants

The Present Book

1 Into the Minxi Countryside

1.1 From Collectivization to the Individual

1.2 Demographic Changes: The Gender Perspective

1.3 Out of the Countryside

1.4 School and Girls’ Education

1.5 Female Employment

1.6 New Jobs

1.7 New Ethics: The “Wise Wife and Good Mother” in Contemporary Terms

1.8 Conclusions

2 Hakka Culture

2.1 The Hakkas: A Definition

2.1.1 Migration: Historical Narrations and Social Group Construction

2.1.2 The “Hakka Spirit”

2.2 Hakka Family Culture

2.2.1 Confucian Values in the Traditional Hakka Family

2.2.2 Family as an Agent for Education

2.2.3 Hakka jiapus and zupus

2.3 Conclusions

3 The Tulou as a Material Body and a Theoretical Body

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Functions of the Hakka Minxi tulou

3.2.1 Defensive Function: The Fortress

3.2.2 Ecology: Harmony with the Environment

3.2.3 Ethics: Perpetuating Family Cohesion

3.3 Fengshui

3.4 Myths and Legends

3.5 A Tulou’s Walls Embody Hakka Lineage Culture

3.6 Conclusions

4 Contemporary Ritual Practices in Fujianese Hakka Villages

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Ancestor Worship

4.3 Popular Rituals and Beliefs

4.4 Female Deities

4.4.1 Mazu: An Independent Female Deity

4.4.2 Guanyin: a Powerful Protector

4.4.3 Potai: The Woman Ancestor

4.5 A Private Ritual: The Manyue Ceremony

4.5.1 The First Manyue

4.5.2 The Second Manyue

4.6 Conclusions

5 “Woman” as an Ethical Model in Confucian Traditions

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Zhongnan qingnü Culture and the Tradition of Rites

5.3 The Nüjie Tradition

5.4 Must-Reads for Women: Nüzi mengxue

5.5 Conclusions

6 Women in Hakka Tradition

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The “Strong Woman” Narrative

6.3 The “Virtuous Woman” Narrative

6.4 Traditional Marriage

6.5 Folk Wisdom and Wen Education: A “Snowball” Effect

6.5.1 “Zengguang xianwen” (The Expanded Writings of Wisdom)

6.5.2 An Artistic Vehicle for Expressing Emotion: Shan ge

6.5.3 The Ballad of the Hakka Woman

6.6 Gender Inequality from a Historical Perspective

6.6.1 Hakka Women in the Taiping Rebellion

6.7 Conclusions

7 The Twentieth Century: From the Tulou to the Modern World

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Central Soviet and the Political Shift

7.3 A Matter of Education

7.4 Heroines in Revolutionary Times

7.5 Conclusions

8 The Image of the Hakka Woman

8.1 Representations of Hakka Women in Contemporary Minxi

8.1.1 Yongding Fulian

8.1.2 Homepage

8.2 A Twenty-First Century Model of a Twentieth-Century Hakka Woman: Jiang Yue’e

8.3 Global Inspirational Models

8.4 Conclusions

9 Conclusions

References

Appendix: Chinese Place Names

Index

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