Women's Identity in Chinese Kinship Revealed in Death Ritual ——a case of a village of Jining,Shandong

Through analyzing death ritual and other local customs in a village in Shangdong province, this paper aims to deepen the research on women's identity in Chinese kinship. This paper argues that the uncertain identity of women in kinship can be explored from two aspects. One is that women experience a life-lasting transformation process, which shifts their identity from women's natal family to their husband's family. The other is that the construction of women's identity in their husband's family is shaped by many emergent factors ___rather than inherently defined.