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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495863603321

Titolo

Chinese families in the post-Mao era / / edited by Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, [Calif.] ; ; London, : University of California Press, c1993

ISBN

0-520-91357-4

0-585-10114-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 370 p., [12] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Collana

Studies on China ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

DavisDeborah <1945->

HarrellStevan

Disciplina

306.85/0951

Soggetti

Families - China - History - 20th century

Marriage - China - History - 20th century

Families - History - 20th century - China

Marriage - History - 20th century - China

China Social conditions 1949- Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, held at Roche Harbor, Wash., June 12-17, 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-357) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.