Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era
by Davis, Deborah; Harrell, Stevan; Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U. S.)Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary
How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologists explore these and other questions in this path-breaking volume. The essays concern both urban and rural communities and range from intellectual to working-class families. They show that there is no single trend in Chinese family organization today, but rather a mosaic of forms and strategies that must be seen in the light of particular local conditions.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Impact of Post-Mao Reforms on Family Life | |
| Urban Families in the Eighties: An Analysis of Chinese Surveys | |
| Urban Households: Supplicants to a Socialist State | |
| Geography, Demography, and Family Composition in Three Southwestern Villages | |
| Family Strategies and Economic Transformation in Rural China: Some Evidence from the Pearl River Delta | |
| Family Strategies and Structures in Rural North China | |
| Reconstituting Dowry and Brideprice in South China | |
| Wedding Behavior and Family Strategies in Chengdu | |
| The Peasantization of the One-Child Policy in Shaanxi | |
| Cultural Support for Birth Limitation among Urban Capital-owning Women | |
| Strategies Used by Chinese Families Coping with Schizophrenia | |
| Settling Accounts: The Intergenerational Contract in an Age of Reform | |
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