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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cooperative organization
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Nuptials
- Family
- Lineages
- 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.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- 1968-69, 1973-74
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southern region, People's Republic of China; Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs