{"title":"Re-Examining the Extended Family in Chinese Peasant Society: Findings from a Fujian Village","authors":"Huang Shu-min","doi":"10.2307/2950025","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A new consensus eems to be emerging recently among social scientists studying the Chinese peasant family system. By re-examining controversies urrounding the size and composition of the Chinese family and by examining ethnographic data collected in Taiwan over long time spans, Myron Cohen, Li Yih-yuan, and Arthur Wolf took a dramatic departure from the previously dominant line of thought., They argued that the existence of the ideal extended family in China is","PeriodicalId":85646,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of Chinese affairs = Ao chung","volume":"1 1","pages":"25 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2950025","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Australian journal of Chinese affairs = Ao chung","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2950025","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A new consensus eems to be emerging recently among social scientists studying the Chinese peasant family system. By re-examining controversies urrounding the size and composition of the Chinese family and by examining ethnographic data collected in Taiwan over long time spans, Myron Cohen, Li Yih-yuan, and Arthur Wolf took a dramatic departure from the previously dominant line of thought., They argued that the existence of the ideal extended family in China is