Asian GroupAreas of Focus: Japan and China

Presented By:

Elizabeth SteinackerDaniel Zimmerman

Jessica EngelRachel Roth

 Private Life Under Socialism : Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

• Shifting of family dynamics from the Corporate model to individuality

• Shifting/equalizing of power in a conjugal relationships

• Changes in spouse selection and courtship rituals.

• Focuses on the individual and their experiences and does a person-centered Ethnography. (a first for a Chinese anthropological study)

A Disability of the Soul (2013)

• Karen Nakamura focuses her studies on disability, sexuality and deaf social movements

• Bethel House is a group for those with psychological disabilities

• Residents are encouraged to talk and participate rather than be heavily medicated

• Nakamura wants to show that people with schizophrenia can live happy and productive lives

Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China

• Ethnography

• Femininity and masculinity in China

• Government involvement

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre

•Japanese vs. Oriental

•Japanese fashion in the west

•Fashion for many body types and genders

Orientalism•Color vs. black vs. white•Prostitution•Silent and reserved female•Dominant household male•Reserved society•White supremacy over other races•White stereotype = stereotype used worldwide•Self vs. Society•Geisha•By the knife

Gender and Family•Focus on the individual with in the family and not the family as a single entity. •The rise of Female power with in the family. Giving equal or full control of the family to the female.

•Shift from multiple generation families to nuclear families with the downfall of socialism. With the shift to nuclear families, the decline of elderly care.

•Individuality with in ones family increases as the corporate model falls away. Personal interest out weigh the family interest.

• Gender roles and how they are performed

• How the government in China punishes and condones hostesses at the same time

• Why these women choose to be hostesses

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