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Aspects of Marriage in Three South-western Villages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Stevan Harrell
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In their effect on marriage and the family, as in so many other domains, the reforms can be seen as having a dual thrust. On the one hand, by giving the land in long-term leases back to the family, and allowing it to invest in a variety of small and medium-sized ventures, they have restored something like the situation in rural China before the collectivization of 1956, when the family estate was the source of income and investment in opportunity for most rural Chinese. On the other hand, the reforms have been undertaken explicitly in the name of modernization, and the increases in both agricultural and rural industrial yields, along with the rise in household entrepreneurship, have taken China in some ways even further from the feudalism of pre-revolutionary days than it was during the collective era.

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A Symposium on Rural Family Change
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The China Quarterly , Volume 130 , June 1992 , pp. 323 - 337
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1992

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