Chinese families in the post-Mao era / edited by Deborah Davis, Stevan Harrell.

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9780520913578
0520913574
0585101140
9780585101149
9780520077973
0520077970
9780520082229
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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.

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

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

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.