Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

by Yunxiang Yan

Book Overview

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this book-a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999.

The author's focus on the personal and the emotional sets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744564
• ISBN13: 9780804744560
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"