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Continuity and change in urban Chinese family life
China journal • 53 • Published In 2005 • Pages: 9-33
By: Whyte, Martin King.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses the change in family life and organization in urban China and Taiwan, particularly the care of the elderly generation. Modernization theory would predict an increase in conjugal families, with parents living separate from their children. In China, elderly parents may live alone, but in close proximity to their children, who have to maintain residential status ([n]hukou[/n]). In Taiwan, older parents lived with one of their children to form a stem family organization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethics
- Household
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Status and treatment of the aged
- 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.
- Sociologist
- 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
- 1989, 1993, 1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Baoding City, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China;Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96645876
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs