Revolutionizing the Family
Subtitle: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780520217201
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian studies; Marriage; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Politics / Current Events; Family; Social Science; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Sociology; China; Government - Comparative; Political History; History / General; 1949-1976; Family policy; Social conditions
First sentence: Immediately after the Republican Party took control of both houses of Congress in the United States in 1994 there was a great deal of talk about "revolution," the role of family in society, and the relationship between the state and the family.
Description: "In 1950, China's new Communist government passed a Marriage Law that ranks as one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. The law prohibited arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, and the citizens were now given free choice in the marriage and easier access to divorce. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, Neil J.

Diamant draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources for a detailed analysis of how the law was interpreted and implemented throughout the country." "Filled with a detailed depiction of the workings of multiple levels of the Chinese state, as well as many anecdotes about urban and rural family life, this original and provocative book will have broad appeal in political science, legal and gender studies, history, sociology, and history."--BOOK JACKET.