"A married out daughter is like spilt water"?: Women's increasing contacts and enhanced ties with their natal families in post-reform rural north China

Modern China

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-283

  Zhang, Weiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

"one child" policy; Daughter parent relationship; Family; Gender; Market reforms; Rural China; The state

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; GENDER RELATIONS; KINSHIP; MARRIAGE; RURAL SOCIETY; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 64249106731     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: 15526836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700408329613     Document Type: Article

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