Charlotte Bruckermann currently works in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Her publications include a book co-written with Stephan Feuchtwang The Anthropology of China: China as Ethnographic and Theoretical Critique (2016, Imperial College Press), and various articles and chapters on environment, kinship, housing, care, morality, and ritual.

“Bruckermann provides a nuanced examination of the dynamics of gender, generation and class in Shanxi province. The ethnography is detailed and compelling.” • Andrew B. Kipnis, University of Hong Kong“An excellent, pioneering analysis… I strongly recommend it.” • Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction: The Countryside as HomePART I: HISTORY, POLITICS, PLACEChapter 1. The Big VillageChapter 2. Genealogies Revealed and ConcealedPART II: GENDER, GENERATION, KINSHIPChapter 3. Reproducing Kin across Generational DividesChapter 4. Gendered Aspirations in MarriagePART III: LABOR, LOCATION, PRECARITYChapter 5. Fields, Food, and the MarketChapter 6. Dangerous DomesticitiesConclusion: Claims, Belonging, and the HomePostscript: Home as WorkplaceReferencesIndex