The Resource Choosing daughters : family change in rural China, Lihong Shi
Choosing daughters : family change in rural China, Lihong Shi
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- Summary
- "China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter. They are doing so even as birth-planning policies are being relaxed and having a second child, and the opportunity of having a son, is a new possibility. Choosing Daughters explores this critical, yet largely overlooked, reproductive pattern emerging in China's demographic landscape. Lihong Shi delves into the social, economic, and cultural forces behind the complex decision-making process of these couples to unravel their life goals and childrearing aspirations, the changing family dynamics and gender relations, and the intimate parent-daughter ties that have engendered this drastic transformation of reproductive choice. She reveals a leading-edge social force that fosters China's recent fertility decline, namely pursuit of a modern family and successful childrearing achieved through having a small family. Through this discussion, Shi refutes the conventional understanding of a universal preference for sons and discrimination against daughters in China and counters claims of continuing resistance against China's population control program."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 189 pages
- Contents
-
- The birth-planning campaign : local experience of population control
- "Life is to enjoy" : the pursuit of the a ideal of happiness
- One tiger versus ten mice : raising one successful child
- "Little quilted vest to warm parents' hearts" : gendered transformation of filial piety
- "Here comes my big debt" : wedding costs and sons as financial burdens
- Emerging from the ancestors' shadow : the weakened belief in family continuity
- Isbn
- 9781503602939
- Label
- Choosing daughters : family change in rural China
- Title
- Choosing daughters
- Title remainder
- family change in rural China
- Statement of responsibility
- Lihong Shi
- Subject
-
- China -- Rural conditions
- Daughters -- China -- Social conditions
- Daughters -- Social conditions
- Ethnologie
- Family size
- Family size -- China
- Geburtenregelung
- Landbevölkerung
- China
- Rural conditions
- Rural families
- Rural families -- China
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for -- China
- Social change
- Social change -- China
- Mädchen
- China
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter. They are doing so even as birth-planning policies are being relaxed and having a second child, and the opportunity of having a son, is a new possibility. Choosing Daughters explores this critical, yet largely overlooked, reproductive pattern emerging in China's demographic landscape. Lihong Shi delves into the social, economic, and cultural forces behind the complex decision-making process of these couples to unravel their life goals and childrearing aspirations, the changing family dynamics and gender relations, and the intimate parent-daughter ties that have engendered this drastic transformation of reproductive choice. She reveals a leading-edge social force that fosters China's recent fertility decline, namely pursuit of a modern family and successful childrearing achieved through having a small family. Through this discussion, Shi refutes the conventional understanding of a universal preference for sons and discrimination against daughters in China and counters claims of continuing resistance against China's population control program."--Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- CSt/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shi, Lihong
- Dewey number
- 306.85/20951
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ684
- LC item number
- .S553 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Rural families
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for
- Daughters
- Family size
- Social change
- China
- Daughters
- Family size
- Rural conditions
- Rural families
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for
- Social change
- China
- Ethnologie
- Landbevölkerung
- Geburtenregelung
- Mädchen
- China
- Label
- Choosing daughters : family change in rural China, Lihong Shi
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The birth-planning campaign : local experience of population control -- "Life is to enjoy" : the pursuit of the a ideal of happiness -- One tiger versus ten mice : raising one successful child -- "Little quilted vest to warm parents' hearts" : gendered transformation of filial piety -- "Here comes my big debt" : wedding costs and sons as financial burdens -- Emerging from the ancestors' shadow : the weakened belief in family continuity
- Control code
- 965617499
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 189 pages
- Isbn
- 9781503602939
- Lccn
- 2016051133
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40027439780
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965617499
- Label
- Choosing daughters : family change in rural China, Lihong Shi
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The birth-planning campaign : local experience of population control -- "Life is to enjoy" : the pursuit of the a ideal of happiness -- One tiger versus ten mice : raising one successful child -- "Little quilted vest to warm parents' hearts" : gendered transformation of filial piety -- "Here comes my big debt" : wedding costs and sons as financial burdens -- Emerging from the ancestors' shadow : the weakened belief in family continuity
- Control code
- 965617499
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 189 pages
- Isbn
- 9781503602939
- Lccn
- 2016051133
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40027439780
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965617499
Subject
- China -- Rural conditions
- Daughters -- China -- Social conditions
- Daughters -- Social conditions
- Ethnologie
- Family size
- Family size -- China
- Geburtenregelung
- Landbevölkerung
- China
- Rural conditions
- Rural families
- Rural families -- China
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for -- China
- Social change
- Social change -- China
- Mädchen
- China
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