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By:Tang Zhaoyun
Publication Date:2019-05-01
China has long been a big agricultural country with a massive rural population. Considering its vast size, high rates of growth and strong preference for boys over girls, this population presents special challenges to efforts to implement the country’s family planning poli...
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By:Li Jun
Publication Date:2018-09-01
In this rigorous quantitative study, the author tries to understand the impact of changes in China’s urban labor market in the reform era on social stratification. The book has three parts. Part one discusses changes to some old systems, including the household registration...
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By:Li De
Publication Date:2018-07-01
Many if not most commonly held views about parenting among Chinese today are based on research done in Western countries. Yet the prevailing theories have had scant empirical support from local data. To fill this gap, the author conducted three social surveys between 2013 and 2016 wi...
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By:Li Xue
Publication Date:2018-08-01
With the publication of this book the author hopes to contribute toward the development of “Global and Transnational Sociology”, an emerging subfield in sociology. As the world becomes ever more interconnected, each modern country finds its own national func...
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By:Zhao Zhongping
Publication Date:2018-07-01
In recent decades, the grip of traditional values on China’s rural population has weakened considerably, while acceptance of more modern values has become increasingly mainstream. The book is an attempt to grapple with the consequences of these changes in Rural China, espe...
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By:Xu Yong
Publication Date:2019-06-01
The basic premise of the book is that given this country’s vast territorial span and long history, urban-rural disparity is one of the most prominent features of China’s political ecology. The author offers a systematic comparative analysis of the political ecology i...