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The cultural construction of emotion in rural Chinese social life
Ethos • 16 (2) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 181-208
By: Potter, Sulamith Heins.
Abstract
This is a study of Chinese emotions, specifically their meaning in social settings. The main argument regards Chinese emotional life as disassociated from social life. Public expressions of anger, sadness, or even joy lack social importance. Rather they are considered idiosyncratic "outbursts" that for the most part can be ignored. The discussion draws on closer examination of emotions as expressed in various familial, marital, and political settings and finds that close social relationships are affirmed through acts of work rather than expressions of love and emotion.
- Subjects
- Drives and emotions
- Mutual aid
- Basis of marriage
- Family relationships
- Ethnopsychology
- Ethnosociology
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- not specified
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Sulamith Heins Potter
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208)
- LCCN
- 730643517
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs