Stevan harrell eds (1 Ergebnisse)

1st Edition. Black and white photographic plates, xiii+ 370pp, index, bibliography, bookseller's sticker on front cover, slightly creased paperback covers, otherwise a good copy. "Eleven sociologists and anthropologists combine their work in this path-breaking volume. Each essay concerns a different community, ranging from major cities to rural villages. The authors ask how families in China have adapted to the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong; rapid commercialisation, a new tolerance of precommunist rituals, and the imposition of the world's strictest birth control policy." (Publisher's description).…