Seminar 1 Post

[Joel Jimenez]

This seminar on generation and gender in Chinese Neo-familim is very complex and has a long history.  I find it fascinating how the neo familism has evolved in China, from traditional gender roles with the patriarch at the helm of the family, to the 20th century where women played a more prominent role in the family.  According to Yunxiang, "clearly, the single most important state regulation affecting the Chinese family was the one-child policy that was first implemented in cities in 1979 and extended to rural areas in the early 1980s" (2018).  However there were unintended consequences such as a righer birth rate of males compared to females and a lower fertility rate.  These are just some of the effects of the government having a finger in the cookie jar...