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Author Shi, Lihong, 1976- author.

Title Choosing daughters : family change in rural China / Lihong Shi.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The birth-planning campaign : local experience of population control -- "Life is to enjoy" : the pursuit of the new ideal of happiness -- One tiger versus ten mice : raising one successful child -- "Little quilted vest to warm parents' hearts" : gendered transformation of filial piety -- "Here comes my big debt" : wedding costs and sons as financial burdens -- Emerging from the ancestors' shadow : weakened belief in family continuity.
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Subject Rural families -- China.
Rural families.
China.
Sex of children, Parental preferences for -- China.
Sex of children, Parental preferences for.
Daughters -- China -- Social conditions.
Daughters.
Social conditions.
Family size -- China.
Family size.
Social change -- China.
Social change.
China -- Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Shi, Lihong, 1976- Choosing daughters. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017] 9781503600898 (DLC) 2016051133 (OCoLC)965617499
ISBN 9781503603004 (electronic book)
1503603008 (electronic book)
9781503600898
1503600890
9781503602939
1503602931