Urban Chinese Daughters Navigating New Roles, Status and Filial Obli
The lives of urban Chinese daughters have changed. Education and employment have propelled them from dependency to self-sufficiency, resulting in new attitudes and lifestyles. However, traditional filial obligation has remained. This book asks why it cont
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Urban Chinese Daughters Navigating new roles, status and filial obligation in a transitioning culture
Patricia O’Neill
St Antony’s Series
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Series Editors Halbert Jones St Antony’s College University of Oxford Oxford, UK Matthew Walton St Antony’s College University of Oxford Oxford, UK
The St Antony’s Series publishes studies of international affairs of contemporary interest to the scholarly community and a general yet informed readership. Contributors share a connection with St Antony’s College, a world-renowned centre at the University of Oxford for research and teaching on global and regional issues. The series covers all parts of the world through both single-author monographs and edited volumes, and its titles come from a range of disciplines, including political science, history, and sociology. Over more than forty years, this partnership between St Antony’s College and Palgrave Macmillan has produced about 300 publications. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15036
Patricia O’Neill
Urban Chinese Daughters Navigating New Roles, Status and Filial Obligation in a Transitioning Culture
Patricia O’Neill Visiting Academic, Contemporary China Studies (SIAS) University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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To my mother, Lorraine Shipley
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