Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China

by Lihong Shi

Book Overview

China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter. They are doing so even as birth-planning policies are being relaxed and having a second child, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503602931
• ISBN13: 9781503602939
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"