Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Prerevolutionary Setting
6. 1. Women and the Traditional Chinese Family 7
7. 2. The Twentieth-Century Family Crisis 27
8. 2. Women and the Family in the Chinese Revolution, 1921-49
9. 3. Women and the Party: The Early Years, 1921-27 39
10. 4. The Kiangsi Soviet Period, 1929-34 51
11. 5. The Yenan Experience and the Final Civil War, 1936-49 63
12. 6. Legacies of the Revolutionary Era 84
13. 3. Family Reform in the People's Republic, 1950-53
14. 7. The Politics of Family Reform 93
15. 8. Land Reform and Women's Rights 102
16. 9. The 1950 Marriage Law: Popular Resistance and Organizational Neglect 115
17. 10. The 1953 Marriage Law Campaign 138
18. 4. Women, the Family and the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1955-80
19. 11. Collectivization and the Mobilization of Female Labor 157
20. 12. The Cultural Revolution 178
21. 13. The Anti-Confucian Campaign 194
22. 14. Current Rural Practice 208
23. 15. Conclusion: Family Reform-the Uncompleted Task 215
24. Appendix: The 1950 Marriage Law 235
25. Notes 241
26. Index 279