China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for
male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a …

The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on
horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard …

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management
consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned …

This article explores the transformation of the gendered practice of filial piety in China, which
traditionally places sons at the centre and relegates daughters to a peripheral role within …

Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as
socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan" Serve the People" has been a …

This study investigates the gender pattern of both downstream and upstream transfers
between older parents and their children in China. Based on theories about the generation …

This study has been a long time coming. The number of people who have helped me along
the way is far too great to be named individually here: my appreciation goes to all of you. I …

Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the production of a set of
institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the …

In this article I analyze longitudinal case studies of five Chinese families to account for the
tensions underlying widespread Chinese discourses about the unsatisfactory personalities …

This article traces the origins of China's one-child-for-virtually-all policy to Maoist militarism
and post-Mao military-to-civilian conversion. Focusing on the work of Song Jian, leading …