This course focuses on the family and wider kinship in traditional and contemporary China, emphasizing their characteristics and how these have changed. Topics include: the nature of the kinship system and the structure of the family in China, changes in the family institution from the pre-communist period to the present, and the consequences and attendant problems of changes in the family and kinship systems.
CHSS4006
Chinese Family and Kinship
Prerequisite:
SOCI2015 Sociological Theory I: Classical Theory OR SOCI2036 Sociology of Marriage and the Family