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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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- Ethics
- Household
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Status and treatment of the aged
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1989, 1993, 1994
- Coverage Date
- 1949-1994
- Coverage Place
- Baoding City, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China;Taiwan
- Notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 96645876
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs