![]() ![]() Many examples are offered in the book, such as the 2017 case of a woman in Guangxi region being denied a divorce after her husband graduated from beating her to putting a knife to her neck in front of their child. That, in practice, means that domestic abuse victims are overwhelmingly denied their rights-from the right to divorce a violent man to the ability to even report a violent crime by a partner. ![]() Divorced men, or single ones, are seen as a destabilizing element. In contrast, by taking an ethnographic approach to China’s domestic violence problem in Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China, anthropologist Tiantian Zheng shows how the government’s paranoia over any potential political instability means an emphasis on so-called family harmony. Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China, Tiantian Zheng, Bloomsbury, 224 pp, $29.95, July 2022. ![]() The book cover for Tiantian Zheng's Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China. ![]()
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