Asian Families and Intimacies

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OCHIAI Emiko is a Japanese sociologist and is Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University Japan. She worked at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies before moving to Kyoto University. Her areas of interest are family studies and gender studies primarily. The Japanese Family System in Transition: A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan originally published in Japanese in 1994 and later translated into English Korean and Chinese is among her most noteworthy publications. Her more recent works include the co-edited volumes Asia''s New Mothers (2008) and The Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective (2009). She is the series editor of the series The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives from Brill started in 2012. Patricia UBEROI is currently Honorary Fellow and Chairperson of the Institute of Chinese Studies Delhi India. Formerly she was Professor of Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth Delhi and a member of the editorial board of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. Her writings are focused primarily on issues of family kinship marriage sexuality and gender and on India-China comparative studies. Among her published works are Freedom and Destiny: Gender Family and Popular Culture in India (2006) and the edited/co-edited volumes Family Kinship and Marriage in India (1994) Social Reform Sexuality and the State (1996) Tradition Pluralism and Identity (1999) Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology (2007) and Marriage Migration and Gender (2008).