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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, [Calif.] ; ; London, : University of California Press, c1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 370 p., [12] p. of plates ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 306.85/0951
• Soggetto topico: Families - China - History - 20th century; Marriage - China - History - 20th century; Families - History - 20th century - China; Marriage - History - 20th century - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Social conditions 1949- Congresses
• Altri autori: DavisDeborah <1945-> HarrellStevan
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese families in the post-Mao era
• ISBN: 0-520-91357-4; 0-585-10114-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495863603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies on China ; ; v. 17.