Full Description
Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. While theories of modernity often treat marriage as an index of social change, without adequate attention to its transformative capacities generated through personal and familial agency, this volume provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Migrant Economy and Marriage in the Republican Era
Chapter 2. Militarization and Marriage in the Cold War Context
Chapter 3. Changing Intergenerational Transmission amidst Political and Economic Liberalization
Chapter 4. Trials of Marrying
Chapter 5. Cross-Border Marriage on the Borderland
Chapter 6. The Work of Marriage: An In-Married Woman's Perspective
Conclusion
References
Index
