| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies on China ; 17
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Studies on China ; 17.
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| Note |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families -- China -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Families. |
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China. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Marriage -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Marriage. |
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History. |
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China -- Social conditions -- 1949- -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1949- |
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Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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| Subject |
Marriage. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added 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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chinese families in the post-Mao era. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520077970 (DLC) 92023163 (OCoLC)26256277 |
| ISBN |
9780520913578 (electronic book) |
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0520913574 (electronic book) |
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0585101140 (electronic book) |
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9780585101149 (electronic book) |
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9780520077973 (alkaline paper) |
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0520077970 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520082229 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520082222 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520077970 |
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0520082222 |
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