Institutional Reforms, Population Policy, and Adoption of Children
Some Observations in a North China Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3018708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wei Guo Zhang (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ontario LSL 1C6, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-318 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcfs.32.2.303 |
| OpenAlex | W2301440544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
From my fieldwork in a Hebei village from July 1992 to December 1993 [conducted for a research project on economic reforms and fertility in rural China (see Zhang 1998b)] two distinct patterns of adoption in this particular village can be noted: (1) in contrast to the fact that during the collective period infertile couples primarily adopted children both infertile couples and an increasing number of fertile couples are adopting children in the reform period; (2) rural couples are increasingly willing to adopt girls following the reforms compared to the pre-reform collective period subsequent to 1949 when Chinese Communists took power. The village is not idiosyncratic in any sense. Its economic and population policies production systems cultural norms and values are similar to thousands of other Chinese villages. What was observed in this village may be applied in many other villages as well. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that there may exist a strong nexus linking economic reforms implementation of population policies and adoption of children in the contemporary Chinese rural society. (authors)
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |