Abstract：In modern mobile society, whether and how the community imagination represented by the family is practical is a crucial question of our time, and family resilience is closely related to this. Family resilience encompasses not only the ability of a family to select and implement strategies when faced with crises of modernity, but also the ability to integrate these flexible and adaptable strategies into daily life. The imaginary vision of family resilience is exemplified by the shared life practices of family members in a three-generation family. However, in the context of spatial dispersion, this imaginary vision faces unprecedented challenges, leading to a widespread confusion over “what makes a family”. How can its practical foundation be reconstructed, and how can the relationship between the adaptability of family strategies and the inherent freedom of family life be addressed? Research has found that family members of different generations and genders have varying levels of awareness of this. Among them, middle-aged women are the earliest and most profound to develop this awareness, making them key actors in current family life practices. Through “running between two places” and “drifting in old age”, they actively and proactively build channels for shared family life among close family members, constructing a trans-spatial continuum of family life and reconstructing the integrity and freedom of the family. In this process, a high degree of mutual construction is achieved between women’s individual subjectivity and the overall subjectivity of the family, which in turn manifests itself as family resilience. The confusion of “what makes a family” has also been answered in the practice of “she makes the family”.
朱灵艳. 从“何以为家”到“以她为家”：家庭韧性的想象图景与实践基础[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2025, 42(6): 108-119.
ZHU Ling-yan. From “What Makes a Family” to “She Makes the Family”: The Imaginary Vision and Practice Basis of Family Resilience. , 2025, 42(6): 108-119.
2025, Vol. 42 
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