Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era: Volume 17

Bys: Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell

Book Overview

How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologists explore these and other questions in this path-breaking volume. The essays concern both urban and rural communities and range from intellectual to working-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520082222
• ISBN13: 9780520082229
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"