Marriage, gender, and sex in a contemporary Chinese village / Sun-pong Yuen, Pui-lam Law, and Yuk-ying Ho.

• Theoretical framework: familism, women's liberation, and autonomy -- Baixiao village: past and present -- Finding a partner, love, and marriage -- Marriage, familism, and autonomy -- The story of uncle Qiu: the dictates of the parents, the words of the matchmaker -- The story of Zhichao: the transition from tradition to modernity -- The story of Qiming: a marriage in the 1990s -- Tradition, women, and the interpretation of the self -- A review of the research into women in Chinese villages -- Wang Guizhen: growing up under the reform and opening-up policy -- "A female's need for fulfillment" in the eyes of traditional women -- Sex and sex trade under the reform and opening-up policy -- Familial culture, gender relationship, and sexual indulgence -- Sex, sex trade, and extra-marital relationship in the eyes of men -- Wealth, materialism, and the feminine viewpoint -- The paradox of the development in Baixiao village -- Reflections on methodology -- Revisit: Baixiao village at the turn of the century -- Baixiao village at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Rural political reform: Baixiao village committee election.

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Ämnesord

Sociala förhållanden  (sao)

Women in rural development  -- China. (LCSH)

Marriage  -- China. (LCSH)

Marriage  -- China -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Sex role  -- China -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Kvinnor  -- Kina (sao)

Äktenskap  -- historia -- Kina (sao)

Könsroller  -- historia -- Kina -- 1900-talet (sao)

Kina  (sao)

China  -- Social conditions -- 1949- (LCSH)

1949- (Folkrepubliken Kina, Kina)  (sao)

Nyckelord

Moea Etnografi, socialantropologi och etnologi: Kina

Oac-oea Familjesociologi: Kina

Publikations- och innehållstyp

HQ1240.5.C6 (LCC)

306.70951 (DDC)

Moea (kssb/7)

Oac-oea (kssb/7)