essay
The Chinese family in the communist revolution
M.I.T. Press • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Yang, C. K..
Abstract
The author, using a light-handed application of Parsonian analysis of social structure, has fashioned a smooth and flowing analysis of the Chinese traditional family and its change under Communism. The introduction gives a rapid overview, and is followed by a detailed analysis of the new freedoms of marriage, divorce, changes in the age hierarchy, the ascendency of women, the shift of loyalties from family to state, the impact of state enterprise on family organization, the role of propaganda in such changes, the role of secularization and its effects on the family, and the disorganization of the clans. The analysis of normative changes, both intended and unintended, by the Communists, is particularly good.
- Subjects
- Sociocultural trends
- Gender status
- Marriage
- Extended families
- Kin relationships
- Political movements
- Legal norms
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Leslie L. Clark ; 1956
- Field Date
- no date given
- Coverage Date
- 1898-1955
- Coverage Place
- People's Republic of China
- Notes
- C. K. Yang ; with a foreward by Talcott Parsons
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index
- LCCN
- 54004758
- LCSH
- China--Family/Communism--China