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Asia

Susan L. Glosser. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953. (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes, number 5.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xxi, 275. $49.95.

In the conventional story of China's twentieth-century revolution, reflected in countless course syllabi and textbooks, the Chinese family as a social institution experienced two important turning points. The first was the New Culture Movement of the late 1910s, when radical critics named China's extended family system and its constituent hierarchies as one of the major factors impeding social change and the establishment of a modern nation. The second was the Marriage Law of 1950, in which the newly established People's Republic of China (PRC) government sought to guarantee freedom of marriage and access to divorce. Recent scholarship has added detail and nuance to this story but generally left the foundational quality of these two turning points intact. New Culture leads to communism, which leads to marriage and family reform, in a coherent genealogy of iconoclastic change orchestrated by the Chinese Communist Party, albeit with fluctuating commitment and success.

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