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Family management and family division in contemporary rural China
China quarterly • (130) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 357-377
By: Cohen, Myron L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the reemergence of the family as an economic unit and actor in China's post-collectivization period. The author makes a distinction between the family head and manager, the two not necessarily coinciding. It is suggested that while the household has reemerged as an economic unit, the large joint family, a typical arrangement in the past, is now rare. The study includes a contemporary examination of the process of family division compared to the past.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Individual enterprise
- Household
- Extended families
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1987, 1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shanghai, People's Republic of China; Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China; Hebei Province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Myron L. Cohen
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62000248
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs