Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : maps |
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Studies on China ; 17 |
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Studies on China ; 17.
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Contents |
The impact of post-Mao reforms on family life / Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell -- 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 / Stevan 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-owing women / Hill Gates -- Strategies used by Chinese families coping with schizophrenia / Michael R. Phillips -- Settling accounts : the intergenerational contract in an age of reform / Charlotte Ikels |
Summary |
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 |
Analysis |
Families |
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China |
Notes |
Papers from a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, held at Roche Harbor, Wash., June 12-17, 1990 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-357) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Families -- China -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Marriage -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Families -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
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Families
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Marriage
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Social conditions
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Families.
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Mariage -- Chine.
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Famille -- Chine.
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Régulation des naissances -- Chine.
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SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions -- 1949- -- Congresses
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Subject |
China
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Chine -- Conditions sociales -- 1949- ... -- Congrès.
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Genre/Form |
Papers (document genres)
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Davis, Deborah, 1945-
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Harrell, Stevan
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Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
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LC no. |
92023163 |
ISBN |
9780520913578 |
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0520913574 |
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0585101140 |
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9780585101149 |
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9780520077973 |
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0520077970 |
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9780520082229 |
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0520082222 |
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