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Revolutionary social change and patrilocal residence in China
Ethnology • 18 (3) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 211-227
By: Whyte, Martin King.
Abstract
This article examines reasons for why patrilocal residence persists in China, despite land reform, new marriage laws, and with them the demise of the traditional patriarchal system. While the corporate lineage system is gone and young couples have more choice in whom to marry, the need for female labor and restrictions on urban migration have kept the agnatic unit largely intact, albeit, reorganized into collective work units. Also, there has remained a strong bias against men moving to their wife's village at marriage.
- Subjects
- Cooperative organization
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Nuptials
- Family
- Lineages
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1968-69, 1973-74
- Coverage Date
- 1930-1979
- Coverage Place
- Southern region, People's Republic of China; Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227)
- LCCN
- 64005713
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs