Chinese families in the post-Mao era / [electronic resource]
Davis, Deborah,1945-
Harrell, Stevan.
Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press,
c1993.
This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.
Papers from a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, held at Roche Harbor, Wash., June 12-17, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-357) and index.
Urban families in the eighties: an analysis of Chinese surveys / Jonathan Unger -- Urban households: supplicants to a socialist state / Deborah Davis -- Geography, demography, and family composition in three southwestern villages / Steven Harrell -- Family strategies and economic transformation in rural China: some evidence from the Pearl River Delta / Graham E. Johnson -- Family strategies and structures in rural north China / Mark Selden -- Reconstituting dowry and brideprice in south China / Helen F. Siu -- Wedding behavior and family strategies in Chengdu / Martin King Whyte -- The peasantization of the one-child policy in Shaanxi / Susan Greenhalgh -- Cultural support for birth limitation among urban capital-owning women / Hill Gates -- Strategies used by Chinese families coping with schizophrenia / Michael R. Phillips -- Settling accounts: the intergeneration contract in an age of reform / Charlotte Ikels.
This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.
Description based on print version record.
Families
Marriage
Families
Marriage