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Home Beyond the House : Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China, Paperback / softback Book

Home Beyond the House : Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China Paperback / softback

Part of the Explorations in Housing Studies series

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Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China?

This question is particularly potent since rural China has experienced rapid and fundamental changes in the twenty-first century under the influences of national policies such as "Building a New Socialist Countryside" enacted in 2006 and "Rural Revitalization" announced in 2018.

Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, building surveys, archival research, and over 600 photographs taken by residents along with their life stories, this book uncovers the meanings of home from rural residents’ perspectives, who belong to a social group that is underrepresented in scholarship and underserved in modern China.

In other words, this study empowers rural residents by giving them voice.

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: The meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle. The Introduction and Chapter 4 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com.

It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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