Private Life under Socialism
By Yunxiang Yan. 2003
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For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this book-a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author's focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China and Consequences for Their Emotional Well-being (2015, unknown): “(see also Mjelde-Mossey et al. 2005; Strom et al. 1999; Yan 2003).”
- Intergenerational transfers and living arrangements of older people in rural China: consequences for psychological well-being. (2006, background): “Economic reforms put into place in 1978 entitled adult children to family property (Cohen, 1992, 1998), reducing their economic incentive to stay in the parental household, despite stronger cultural preferences to do so (Y. Yan, 2003; H. Zhang, 2004).”
- The Effect of Sibship Size on Educational Attainment in China: Period Variations (2008, background): “Such practices are still prevalent in rural China today, and the attendant norms persist even in the urban population (Yan 2003).”
- Intergenerational Time-for-Money Exchanges in Rural China: Does Reciprocity Reduce Depressive Symptoms of Older Grandparents? (2008, background): “In a patriarchal family system, intergenerational obligations are more formally defined with respect to sons than to daughters (Yan, 2003; H. Zhang, 2007).”