Based on an ethnographic study of matrimonial activities at Zhang Village (Henan province), this dissertation aims to identify continuities and changes in matrimonial rituals and procedures and explain whether observed changes speak of a structural transformation of the institution of marriage in contemporary rural China. By studying the matrimonial activities step by step, it demonstrates that perpetuation of the patrilineal lineage remains a transcendent value encompassing all types of family relationships. Although there have been many changes in private life since the Chinese Communist Party’s rise to power in 1949, these changes primarily concern the ways in which family members maintain bonds with each other, whereas, the institution ...
This thesis challenges the notion that China was a dowry society. The majority of the population bef...
Divided in three parts, this report presents in the first chapter, «An anthropological study», a br...
This dissertation focuses on exploring the myth of ―revolutionary marriage‖, a popular and lasting m...
Based on an ethnographic study of matrimonial activities at Zhang Village (Henan province), this dis...
This paper describes and analyses the Chinese family in Yangmansa, a north China village, with respe...
This thesis, based on documentary sources and a brief period of intensive interviewing in the People...
Alternatives to the traditional practice of patrilocal postmarital residence exist in modern day Chi...
Le rapport de soutenance de la thèse est téléchargé en annexe.This ethnographic study, based on fiel...
Family change in China over the past few decades has been characterised by a trend towards later mar...
UnrestrictedThis dissertation studies changes in marriage practice in a North China village through ...
Abstract: Alternatives to the traditional practice of patrilocal post-marital residence exist in mod...
This thesis is concerned with discovering some changes in the Chinese family after 1949. Since the M...
UNKThe principle of patrilineal descent has only a limited sphere of influence and can not necessari...
This thesis presents one localized perspective of contemporary multi-ethnic rural Chinese society. B...
This ethnographic study, based on fieldwork research carried out in Beijing and Chengdu between 2006...
This thesis challenges the notion that China was a dowry society. The majority of the population bef...
Divided in three parts, this report presents in the first chapter, «An anthropological study», a br...
This dissertation focuses on exploring the myth of ―revolutionary marriage‖, a popular and lasting m...
Based on an ethnographic study of matrimonial activities at Zhang Village (Henan province), this dis...
This paper describes and analyses the Chinese family in Yangmansa, a north China village, with respe...
This thesis, based on documentary sources and a brief period of intensive interviewing in the People...
Alternatives to the traditional practice of patrilocal postmarital residence exist in modern day Chi...
Le rapport de soutenance de la thèse est téléchargé en annexe.This ethnographic study, based on fiel...
Family change in China over the past few decades has been characterised by a trend towards later mar...
UnrestrictedThis dissertation studies changes in marriage practice in a North China village through ...
Abstract: Alternatives to the traditional practice of patrilocal post-marital residence exist in mod...
This thesis is concerned with discovering some changes in the Chinese family after 1949. Since the M...
UNKThe principle of patrilineal descent has only a limited sphere of influence and can not necessari...
This thesis presents one localized perspective of contemporary multi-ethnic rural Chinese society. B...
This ethnographic study, based on fieldwork research carried out in Beijing and Chengdu between 2006...
This thesis challenges the notion that China was a dowry society. The majority of the population bef...
Divided in three parts, this report presents in the first chapter, «An anthropological study», a br...
This dissertation focuses on exploring the myth of ―revolutionary marriage‖, a popular and lasting m...