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Title Chinese families in the post-Mao era / edited by Deborah Davis, Stevan Harrell
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : maps
Series Studies on China ; 17
Studies on China ; 17.
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
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
Print version record
Subject Families -- China -- 20th century -- Congresses
Marriage -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Families -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
Families
Marriage
Social conditions
Families.
Mariage -- Chine.
Famille -- Chine.
Régulation des naissances -- Chine.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1949- -- Congresses
Subject China
Chine -- Conditions sociales -- 1949- ... -- Congrès.
Genre/Form Papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Deborah, 1945-
Harrell, Stevan
Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
LC no. 92023163
ISBN 9780520913578
0520913574
0585101140
9780585101149
9780520077973
0520077970
9780520082229
0520082222