Marriage and Marriageability : : The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China /

Marriage and Marriageability : : The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China / / Chigusa Yamaura.

How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking—individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meeting—come to see one another as potential marriage partners? Motivated by this question, Chigusa Yamaura traces the practices of Sino-Japanese matchmaki...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Yamaura, Chigusa,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 4 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Naming, Translating, and Converting
  • Introduction: Beginnings
  • 1. From Manchukuo to Marriage
  • 2. The Making and Unmaking of “Unmarriageable Persons” in Japan
  • 3. Creating “Similar” Others at Transnational Matchmaking Agencies in Japan
  • 4. Marrying Up, Down, or Off in Dongyang
  • 5. Gendered Investments in Marriage Migration
  • 6. Crafting Legitimate Marital Relations
  • Conclusion: Yen or En?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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