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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..
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Individual enterprise
- Household
- Extended families
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1986-1987, 1990
- Coverage Date
- 1980-1990
- Coverage Place
- Shanghai, People's Republic of China; Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China; Hebei Province, People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Myron L. Cohen
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 62000248
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs