Stanford University Press has published Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lihong Shi's book Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. The book explores an emerging reproductive pattern in rural China in which a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter.
Shi delves into the social, economic and cultural forces behind the complex decision-making process of these couples to unravel their life goals and child-rearing aspirations, the changing family dynamics and gender relations, and the intimate parent–daughter ties that have engendered this drastic transformation of reproductive choice.
Read about the book.
Anthropology’s Lihong Shi publishes book on changing family patterns in rural China
Stanford University Press has published Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lihong Shi's book Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. The book explores an emerging reproductive pattern in rural China in which a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter.
Shi delves into the social, economic and cultural forces behind the complex decision-making process of these couples to unravel their life goals and child-rearing aspirations, the changing family dynamics and gender relations, and the intimate parent–daughter ties that have engendered this drastic transformation of reproductive choice.
Read about the book.
