Love's Uncertainty The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China

Reviews

"Provides a scholarly yet eminently readable antidote to the thrills that global readers took from the tiger mother popular debates about whether children benefit from ambitious, autocratic parenting."—Pacific Affairs

“Love's Uncertainty offers original perspectives on the relationship between subjectivity and governmentality in China and innovative scholarship on urban Chinese childrearing at the start of the twenty-first century.”— Vanessa Fong, Amherst College

“Though topically Love's Uncertainty focuses on parenting dilemmas in the context of China's high-pressure education system, its theoretical breadth makes it difficult to pigeonhole. It is much more than a book about child rearing, or education, or mothering. Love's Uncertainty is also a book about ethics, well-being, affect and the place of emotion in the human condition, the conduct of conduct in the broadest possible sense, Chinese modernity, and ultimately, how to rethink relations between various structures and particular human actions. It handles all of these issues with theoretical sophistication, enticing and illustrative stories, and a strong understanding of the ethnographic context.”— Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University