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The Happiness Impasse: Exploring Middle-Class Women's Pursuits of Marital Happiness in Urban China and Japan.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Happiness Impasse: Exploring Middle-Class Women's Pursuits of Marital Happiness in Urban China and Japan./
作者:	Sun, Lin.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	375 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-05B.
標題:	Individual & family studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28851427
ISBN:	9798492728137

The Happiness Impasse: Exploring Middle-Class Women's Pursuits of Marital Happiness in Urban China and Japan.
Sun, Lin.

The Happiness Impasse: Exploring Middle-Class Women's Pursuits of Marital Happiness in Urban China and Japan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 375 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2020.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

There is an increasing anthropological interest in well-being and happiness in recent years. However, most anthropologists have not yet applied it to a specific area of human life. Based on my twenty-three-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, China and Tokyo, Japan, this thesis provides a "thick" understanding of "happiness" from the perspective of flesh-and-bone individuals, as they told their "(un)happiness" stories in a realm which continues to be considered by many contemporaries as the single greatest source of potential human flourishing-marriage-and yet one which all too often fails. Instead of asking what marital happiness is and offering yet another fixed definition or ideal or code of it as many other works have done, the primary question this thesis asks is: what does "marital happiness" do among my Chinese and Japanese interviewees?Part I of the thesis sketches out the historical stage on which this ethnography unfolds by delineating, respectively, how two married women-one Chinese living in Shanghai and the other Japanese living in Tokyo, now both in their late sixties-have variously experienced their marital life against the vicissitudes of the economic, political and sociocultural flux in the two societies since the postwar era. In Parts II and III, I turn to the younger generation. In Shanghai, I profile one woman who seemed to be ideally happy with her marriage, and another who thought of marriage as "slavery" but nonetheless relentlessly followed the dominant marriage ideal I call the "marital happiness recipe". In Tokyo, a group of career-oriented mothers I interviewed deemed "conjugal equality" crucial to their sense of marital happiness and eagerly pursued it through the use of what they called the "Happy Share Board" through which household chores were negotiated between wife and husband. Housewives I interviewed held to conventional "women's happiness" ideals and asked how it is possible for couples to stay "independently together". Through telling the marriage stories of these middle-class Chinese and Japanese women who I interviewed in these two cities, I bring out the concept of "happiness impasse" to reveal how the same social mechanisms that generated the "marital happiness recipe" often impede at the structural level the very happiness they promise at the individual level. The Conclusion examines the affective and ethical dimensions of this "happiness impasse". This thesis seeks, through an ethnographic lens, to provide a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the concept of "marital happiness" in Shanghai and Tokyo, and to capture the simultaneous anxiety and aspiration it casts upon its pursuers.

ISBN: 9798492728137Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122770
Individual & family studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Middle-class women

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