Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 194

Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist P

This volume includes 14 articles translated from the leading academic history journal in China, Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai Zhongguo shi y

A new look at the impact of the Communist Revolution on Chinese family structure.

"[The author] examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her bo