Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Tables
Editor's Introduction: Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State: Chinese and Western Perspective
Xiaofei Kang
1 On the Evolution of the prc Marriage Law
Liu Weifang
2 The Marriage Law and the Changes in Marriage and Family in the 1980s
Qin Yan and Li Yajuan
3 The Initial Formation of the New Marriage Institution in the People's Republic of China
Liu Weifang
4 The Rural Marriage System Reform in North China in the Early prc
Zhang Zhiyong
5 The Marriage System Reform in Central South Region in Early prc
Li Honghe
6 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
7 Retrospection and Thought on the Study of Social Transformation and the Changes in Contemporary Rural Marriage and Family
Wang Yuesheng
8 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
9 Shanghai Women's Liberation and Participation in Collective Production in the 1950s
Qiu Guosheng
10 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
11 The Whole Story of the Establishment of the "Dual Policy of Diligence and Frugality" on Chinese Women's Work
Liu Weifang
12 On Restoring Women's Movement to the Right Order
Geng Huamin
13 The Family Planning Campaign in Beijing in the 1960s
Wang Linran
14 Education of Women Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China: Achievements, Problems and Countermeasures
Gu Ning
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