Fluid motherhood: gender, Chinese religions, and kinship maneuvers in the Buddhist women's Southern Sea diaspora (1880–1960).
Chinese kinship, the basis and vital force of Chinese societies, is defined by patrilineal descent; thus, it has an agnatic character. The Chinese kinship system was brought to Southeast Asia by Chinese communities in their various diasporic trajectories. Its patriarchal norms have been maintained t...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 643 - 662 |
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