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

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Description xiii, 370 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Series Studies on China ; 17
Studies on China ; 17
Contents part 1. Household structure -- part 2. Marriage -- part 3. Childbearing -- part 4. Hardship and dependencies
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
Notes The chapters in this volume were first presented at a conference on "Family Strategies in Post-Mao China", held at Roche Harbor, Washington, June 12-17, 1990
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-357) and index
Notes Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
English
Description based on print version record
Subject Families -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Families -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Marriage -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Marriage -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000602
China -- Social conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000602 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Davis, Deborah, 1945- editor
Harrell, Stevan, editor
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, sponsor
Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.), sponsor
Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.). Conference (1990 : Roche Harbor, Washington)
Social Science Research Council (U.S.), sponsor
LC no. 92023163
ISBN 0520077970
0520082222
9780520077973
9780520082229
Other Titles UC Press E-Books Collection, 1928-2004 (Public)