Negotiating Family Life in Urban China, 1959-1984
Introduction
Chapter One
Towards a Socialist “State-family”: War, Revolution, and the Grassroots Experiences in 1950s Urban China
Chapter Two
A Revolutionary Austerity: Economic Adjustment, Maoist Ideology, and Urban Family Life in the Aftermath of the Great Leap Forward, 1962-1068
Chapter Three
Unsustainable Sacrifice: The Economic and Emotional Costs of Family Separation during the Send-down Decade, 1969-1979
Chapter Four
A Bitter Homecoming: Family Strategies and Everyday Politics of Family Reunion, 1975-1984
Chapter Five
Small Comfort: The Move Away from Communism in Post-Mao China, 1975-1984