Marriage and Marriageability
The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China
Seiten
2020
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5014-4 (ISBN)
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5014-4 (ISBN)
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 matchmaking from transnational marriage agencies in Tokyo to branch offices and language schools in China, from initial meetings to marriage, the visa application processes, and beyond to marital life in Japan.
Engaging issues of colonial history, local norms, and the very ability to conceive of another or oneself as marriageable, Marriage and Marriageability rethinks cross-border marriage not only as a form of gendered migration, but also as a set of practices that constructs marriageable partners and imaginable marriages. Yamaura shows that instead of desiring different others, these transnational marital relations are based on the tactical deployment of socially and historically created conceptions of proximity between Japan and northeast China. Far from seeking to escape local practices, participants in these marriages actively seek to avoid transgressing local norms. By doing so on a transnational scale, they paradoxically reaffirm and attempt to remain within the boundaries of local marital ideologies.
Engaging issues of colonial history, local norms, and the very ability to conceive of another or oneself as marriageable, Marriage and Marriageability rethinks cross-border marriage not only as a form of gendered migration, but also as a set of practices that constructs marriageable partners and imaginable marriages. Yamaura shows that instead of desiring different others, these transnational marital relations are based on the tactical deployment of socially and historically created conceptions of proximity between Japan and northeast China. Far from seeking to escape local practices, participants in these marriages actively seek to avoid transgressing local norms. By doing so on a transnational scale, they paradoxically reaffirm and attempt to remain within the boundaries of local marital ideologies.
Chigusa Yamaura is a Departmental Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Contemporary China Studies in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, and also Junior Research fellow at Wolfson College in the University of Oxford.
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?
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.06.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Ithaca |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 907 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5017-5014-3 / 1501750143 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-5014-4 / 9781501750144 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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