ISBN:
9780520913578
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0520913574
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0585101140
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9780585101149
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 370 pages)
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maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies on China 17
Parallel Title:
Print version Chinese families in the post-Mao era
DDC:
306.850951
Keywords:
Families Congresses
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20th century
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China
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Marriage Congresses
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History
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20th century
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China
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Marriage Congresses History 20th century
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Families Congresses 20th century
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Marriage Congresses History 20th century
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Families Congresses 20th century
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Marriage
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Social conditions
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Sociology & Social History
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Social Sciences
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Family & Marriage
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference
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Families
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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China Congresses
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Social conditions
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1949-
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China
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China Congresses Social conditions 1949-
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China Congresses Social conditions 1949-
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China
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Electronic books Conference proceedings
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History
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
The impact of post-Mao reforms on family life / Deborah Davis and Stevan HarrellUrban 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.
Note:
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. - Description based on print version record
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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
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520077973.001.0001
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