Family Life In China

Author : William R. Jankowiak
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745685587
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Life in China written by William R. Jankowiak and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China. It is no surprise, therefore, that the dramatic changes experienced by Chinese society over the past century have produced a wide array of new family systems. Where a widely accepted Confucian-based ideology once offered a standard framework for family life, current ideas offer no such uniformity. Ties of affection rather than duty have become prominent in determining what individuals feel they owe to their spouses, parents, children, and others. Chinese millennials, facing a world of opportunities and, at the same time, feeling a sense of heavy obligation, are reshaping patterns of courtship, marriage, and filiality in ways that were not foreseen by their parents nor by the authorities of the Chinese state. Those whose roots are in the countryside but who have left their homes to seek opportunity and adventure in the city face particular pressures – as do the children and elders they have left behind. The authors explore this diversity focusing on rural vs. urban differences, regionalism, and ethnic diversity within China. Family Life in China presents new perspectives on what the current changes in this institution imply for a rapidly changing society.

Author : Yi Zeng
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299126346
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Dynamics in China written by Yi Zeng and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (submitted to Brussels Free U. in March 1986) and subsequent research, presents an overview of the demographic profile of families in China, discusses the construction and validation of a general family status life table model (which is an extension of Bongaarts' nuclear family model), and deals with the application of the model and presents new findings concerning family dynamics in China. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520082229
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era written by Deborah Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-10-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David E. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000299163
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage and Family in Modern China written by David E. Scharff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China. The book describes the evolution of marriage and family structure, from the ancient tradition of large families preferring sons, arranged marriages and devaluation of girls, to a contemporary dominance of free-choice marriages and families that now prefer to remain small even after the ending of the One Child Policy. David Scharff uses extensive reports of his psychoanalytic interventions to demonstrate how the residue of widespread trauma suffered by Chinese families during past centuries has interacted with the effects of rapid modernization to produce new patterns of individual identity, personal ambition and family structure. This wholly original book offers new insight into Chinese families for all those interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in the intricacies of Chinese domestic life.

Author : William L. Parish
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226645919
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village and Family in Contemporary China written by William L. Parish and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980-08-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1949 the Chinese Communists carried out land reform, the collectivization of agriculture, and the formation of people's communes. The new economic and political organizations that emerged have made peasant life more comfortable and secure, but many economic and status differentials and traditional customs remain resistant to change. Focusing on rural Kwangtung province, William L. Parish and Martin King Whyte examine the rural work-incentive system, village equality and inequality, rural health care and education, marriage customs, and the position of women, among other topics, to determine what and how much of the traditional Chinese ways of life is left in Communist China.

Author : Chan Kwok-bun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461402662
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Chinese Families written by Chan Kwok-bun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families are the cornerstone of Chinese society, whether in mainland China, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, or in the Chinese diaspora the world over. Handbook of the Chinese Family provides an overview of economics, politics, race, ethnicity, and culture within and external to the Chinese family as a social institution. While simultaneously evaluating its own methodological tools, this book will set current knowledge in the context of what has been previously studied as well as future research directions. It will examine inter-family relationships and politics as well as childrearing, education, and family economics to provide a rounded and in-depth view.

Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804764115
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Life under Socialism written by Yunxiang Yan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.

Author : Xiaoying Qi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197510981
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking Families in Contemporary China written by Xiaoying Qi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surnaming: veiled patriarchy -- Floating grandparents: intergenerational exchange -- Intimacy and a third element -- Divorce: broken and unbroken bonds -- Flowering at sunset: remarriage and co-habitation among the elderly.

Author : Johanna S. Ransmeier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497719X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold People written by Johanna S. Ransmeier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.

Author : Karoline Kan
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316412031
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Red Skies written by Karoline Kan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they navigated their way in a country beset by poverty and often-violent political unrest. As the Kans move from quiet villages to crowded towns and through the urban streets of Beijing in search of a better way of life, they are forced to confront the past and break the chains of tradition, especially those forced on women. Raw and revealing, Karoline Kan offers gripping tales of her grandmother, who struggled to make a way for her family during the Great Famine; of her mother, who defied the One-Child Policy by giving birth to Karoline; of her cousin, a shoe factory worker scraping by on 6 yuan (88 cents) per hour; and of herself, as an ambitious millennial striving to find a job--and true love--during a time rife with bewildering social change. Under Red Skies is an engaging eyewitness account and Karoline's quest to understand the rapidly evolving, shifting sands of China. It is the first English-language memoir from a Chinese millennial to be published in America, and a fascinating portrait of an otherwise-hidden world, written from the perspective of those who live there.