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Revolutionizing the family : politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968 / Neil J. Diamant.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diamant, Neil J., 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--China.
- Families.
- Family policy--China.
- Family policy.
- China--Social conditions--1949-1976.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (460 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2019
- Other Title:
- Politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1964
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO. The State and the Family in Urban China: Beijing and Shanghai, 1950-1953
- CHAPTER THREE. Between "Urban" and "Rural": Family Reform in the Beijing and Shanghai Suburbs, 1950-1953
- CHAPTER FOUR. Family Reform in the Southwest Frontier, 1950-1953
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Politics and Culture of Divorce and Marriage in Urban China, 1954-1966
- CHAPTER SIX. The Family in Flux: Family and Personal Relationships in Rural Areas, 1954-1966
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Conservative Backlash: Politics, Sex, and the Family in the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1968
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Conclusion
- AFTERWORD. Observations on State-Family Relations in the Reform Period
- APPENDIX. Texts of the "Decree Regarding Marriage" and the 1950 Marriage Law
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-423) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520922389
- 0520922387
- 9781597348713
- 1597348716
- OCLC:
- 475928488
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