| Series |
Historical studies of contemporary China ; volume 3
Historical studies of contemporary China ; 3. ^A1303852
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| Contents |
Editor's introduction : Women, family and the Chinese socialist state : Chinese and Western perspectives / Xiaofei Kang -- On the evolution of the PRC Marriage Law / Liu Weifang -- Marriage Law and the changes in marriage and family in the 1980s / Qin Yan and Li Yajuan -- Initial formation of the New Marriage Institution in the People's Republic of China / Liu Weifang -- Rural marriage system reform in North China in the early PRC / Zhang Zhiyong -- Marriage system reform in Central South Region in early PRC / Li Honghe -- Build and transform : the implementation of the Marriage Law in Southeastern Guizhou in the early days of the People's Republic of China / Fan Liansheng -- Retrospection and thought on the study of social transformation and the changes in contemporary rural marriage and family / Wang Yuesheng -- Match-making, mate choice and betrothal gifts : marriage ideas and marital behavior of the rural youth in the era of People's Commune / Li Bingkui -- Shanghai women's liberation and participation in collective production in the 1950s / Qiu Guosheng -- State commendation and liberation of women : a study of the commendations for "March 8 Red Banner Individual Bearers" and "March 8 Red Banner Collective Bearers" / Zhou Lei -- Whole story of the establishment of the "Dual Policy of Diligence and Frugality" on Chinese women's work / Liu Weifang -- On restoring women's movement to the right order / Geng Huamin -- Family planning campaign in Beijing in the 1960s / Wang Linran -- Education of women since the founding of the People's Republic of China : achievements, problems and countermeasures / Gu Ning. |
| Abstract |
This volume includes 14 articles translated from the leading academic history journal in China, Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu). It offers a rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China have understood and interpreted central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the PRC to the reform era. Chapters cover a wide range of topics, from women's liberation, women's movement and women's education, to the impact of marriage laws and marriage reform, and changing practices of conjugal love, sexuality, family life and family planning. The volume invites further comparative inquiries into the gendered nature of the socialist state and the meanings of socialist feminism in the global context. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Xiaofei Kang, Ph.D (2000), is Associate Professor of Chinese Religions at the George Washington University. She has published books and articles on religion, ethnicity, tourism, and gender in late imperial and modern China. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Women, family and the Chinese socialist state, 1950-2010. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9004415920 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9789004415935 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9004415939 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardback |
| Standard identifier# |
10.1163/9789004415935 |
