Village & Family in Contemporary China (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Parish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226645916 ISBN 13: 9780226645919

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1980

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

William L. Parish is professor of sociology and Director of the Center for Far Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. Martin King Whyte is professor of sociology and an associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0226645916
• ISBN 13: 9780226645919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440