How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking--individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meeting--come to see one another as potential marriage partners? Motivated by this question, Chigusa Yamaura traces the practices of Sino-Japanese matchmaking from transnational marriage agencies in Tokyo to branch offices and language schools in China, from initial meetings to marriage, the visa application processes, and beyond to marital life in Japan.
Engaging issues of colonial history, local norms, and the very ability to conceive of another or oneself as marriageable, Marriage and Marriageability rethinks cross-border marriage not only as a form of gendered migration, but also as a set of practices that constructs marriageable partners and imaginable marriages. Yamaura shows that instead of desiring different others, these transnational marital relations are based on the tactical deployment of socially and historically created conceptions of proximity between Japan and northeast China. Far from seeking to escape local practices, participants in these marriages actively seek to avoid transgressing local norms. By doing so on a transnational scale, they paradoxically reaffirm and attempt to remain within the boundaries of local marital ideologies.
--Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv University, suthor of Housewives of Japan and Packaged Japaneseness
Автор: Flower Amanda Название: Matchmaking Can Be Murder: An Amish Matchmaker Mystery ISBN: 1643585738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643585734 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 42470.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Matchmaking can be murder . . . When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away--the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he's not right for such a gentle young woman--except Edith herself. Pleased when she convinces the bride-to-be to leave her betrothed before the wedding, Millie is later panicked to find Zeke in Edith's greenhouse--as dead as a tulip in the middle of winter. To keep her niece out of prison--and to protect her own reputation--Millie will have to piece together a patchwork of clues to find a killer, before she becomes the next name on his list . . . Praise for Amanda Flower and her Amish cozies "As it turns out, Amanda Flower may have just written the first Amish rom com." --USA Today "Flower has hit it out of the ballpark . . . and continues to amaze with her knowledge of the Amish way of life." --RT Book Reviews "At turns playful and engaging . . . a satisfyingly complex cozy." --Library Journal
Автор: Bhandari Parul Название: Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage ISBN: 9811515980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811515989 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in which the middle class in India select their spouse.
Автор: Bhandari Parul Название: Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage ISBN: 9811516014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811516016 Издательство: Springer Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in which the middle class in India select their spouse.
Казахстан, 010000 г. Астана, проспект Туран 43/5, НП2 (офис 2) ТОО "Логобук" Тел:+7 707 857-29-98 ,+7(7172) 65-23-70 www.logobook.kz
