| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The City | p. 8 |
| The Place | p. 8 |
| The Historical Context | p. 11 |
| Daily Rhythm | p. 20 |
| Economic Context: 1981-87 | p. 24 |
| The Objectification of Ethnicity | p. 30 |
| The Rise of Ethnic Antagonism: The Struggle for Dignity and Gain | p. 33 |
| Life Orientations: Competing Notions of Ethnic Integrity | p. 40 |
| Dreams, Ambiguity and Unresolved Identity Markers | p. 48 |
| Dual Ethnic Names: Ambiguity and Authenticity | p. 50 |
| Life Orientation and Social Class | p. 53 |
| The Mongolian Female: Hypergyny or Authenticity? | p. 55 |
| Urban Hierarchy: Honor, Power, and Morality | p. 60 |
| Morality, Respect, and Admiration: An Inquiry into Social Honor | p. 61 |
| The Struggle for Honor | p. 63 |
| Gentility: The Restrictions of Social Rank | p. 85 |
| Character, Morality, and Honor | p. 89 |
| Cultural Principles and Social Resentment: The Worker Stratum | p. 92 |
| Locality, Neighbors, and Urban Crime | p. 97 |
| Formal Organization: The Neighborhood Committee | p. 98 |
| Types of Dwellings and Their Characteristics | p. 100 |
| Folk Notions of "Neighborhood" | p. 102 |
| Neighboring: Folk Ideals, Frequency, and Social Class | p. 103 |
| Quarrels and Disruption in Neighborly Relations | p. 106 |
| Friendship, Neighbors, and Social Class | p. 109 |
| Urban Crime | p. 113 |
| Neighborhood Crime: The Old City | p. 115 |
| Street Crime | p. 119 |
| The Public Domain: Strangers Mediating Strangers | p. 125 |
| Imperial and Contemporary China: Social Control and Dispute Management | p. 126 |
| The Anatomy of the Public Dispute: Twenty-three Case Studies | p. 128 |
| Disputants: Demography and Style | p. 158 |
| Mediators: Demography and Style | p. 161 |
| Duty, Fear, and Civic Consciousness | p. 163 |
| Gender Images, Sexual Attraction, and Mate Selection | p. 165 |
| Gender Stereotypes: Somatic, Personality, and Sexual Images | p. 166 |
| The Chinese Ideal Mate | p. 168 |
| Sexual Signals | p. 169 |
| Gender Interaction Within and Outside the Sexual Encounter | p. 174 |
| Sex Differences in China: Partner Selection Criteria | p. 178 |
| Hypergyny | p. 180 |
| Sex Differences in Erotic Desires | p. 186 |
| Sexual Enticement and Sexual Harassment | p. 187 |
| Romance in Daily Life | p. 191 |
| Romance, Literature, and the Individual within Imperial China | p. 192 |
| Love and Romance in Urban China | p. 196 |
| Romantic Infatuation: Styles of Courtship | p. 197 |
| Romantic Love and Seduction | p. 201 |
| Fragility of the Individual in the Courtship Process | p. 203 |
| Attraction Phase: Desire and Marriage Expectations | p. 207 |
| The Chinese Mother: The Development of Romantic Cynicism | p. 209 |
| Mei Ling: A Representative Tale from the Upper Strata | p. 210 |
| Sex Differences in the Pursuit and Experience of Love | p. 218 |
| The Chinese Family: Parents, Spouses, and Children | p. 223 |
| The Stem, Nuclear, and Joint Family | p. 225 |
| The Domestic Unit: Sibling Ties | p. 227 |
| The Domestic Sphere: The Meaning of Marriage | p. 227 |
| Marital Satisfaction and Frequency of Intercourse | p. 230 |
| Domestic Power | p. 234 |
| Daughter-in-Law and Mother-in-Law: A New Natal Reality | p. 239 |
| Parent-Child Relations | p. 242 |
| The Emergent Urban Father-Child Relationship | p. 246 |
| Infant Care | p. 247 |
| Early Childhood | p. 249 |
| Styles of Parenting | p. 250 |
| Father-Daughter Love | p. 253 |
| Chinese Mortuary Rites: Transformation of Cosmology | p. 258 |
| Socialist Transformation of Huhhotian Religious Institutions | p. 258 |
| Socialist Transformation: Ancestor Worship | p. 262 |
| Socialist Cremation Rite | p. 266 |
| Traditional Mortuary Rites | p. 268 |
| Preburial Rites | p. 270 |
| The Day of the Funeral | p. 273 |
| Funeral Offerings | p. 274 |
| Five Mourning Animals | p. 275 |
| Mourning Costume | p. 276 |
| Ritual Segments of the Funeral | p. 278 |
| Postfunerary Rites | p. 287 |
| Qing Ming and Ghost Day | p. 288 |
| Death, Doubt, and Reputation: The Yu Family | p. 289 |
| The Soul of Lao Yu: A Representative Tale | p. 290 |
| Animistic Forces, Soul Possession, and Dreams: Dialogues with the Dead | p. 295 |
| Afterword | p. 301 |
| Appendix A: Methodology | p. 307 |
| Appendix B: Prestige Ranking Study | p. 310 |
| Appendix C: Sexuality | p. 313 |
| Notes | p. 317 |
| References | p. 333 |
| Index | p. 341 |
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