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Shi, Lihong

 
9781503602939: Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China
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ISBN 10: 1503602931 ISBN 13: 9781503602939
Editorial: Stanford University Press, 2017

Sinopsis

China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter. They are doing so even as birth-planning policies are being relaxed and having a second child, and the opportunity of having a son, is a new possibility.

Choosing Daughters explores this critical, yet largely overlooked, reproductive pattern emerging in China's demographic landscape. Lihong Shi delves into the social, economic, and cultural forces behind the complex decision-making process of these couples to unravel their life goals and childrearing aspirations, the changing family dynamics and gender relations, and the intimate parent–daughter ties that have engendered this drastic transformation of reproductive choice. She reveals a leading-edge social force that fosters China's recent fertility decline, namely pursuit of a modern family and successful childrearing achieved through having a small family. Through this discussion, Shi refutes the conventional understanding of a universal preference for sons and discrimination against daughters in China and counters claims of continuing resistance against China's population control program.

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Lihong Shi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University.

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Editorial
Stanford University Press
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1503602931
ISBN 13 
9781503602939
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Número de páginas
208
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