TY - BOOK ID - 77903044 TI - Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 PY - 2003 VL - 5 SN - 1282758896 9786612758898 0520926390 1597345350 9780520926394 0585467811 9780585467818 9781282758896 0520227298 9780520227293 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Domestic relations KW - Family policy KW - Families KW - Families and state KW - State and families KW - Public welfare KW - Social security KW - Social policy KW - History. KW - Government policy KW - China KW - History KW - S02/0200 KW - S11/0493 KW - S11/0700 KW - S11/0701 KW - S11/0710 KW - China: General works--Civilization and culture KW - China: Social sciences--Society: 1911 - 1949 KW - China: Social sciences--Clan and family: general and before 1949 (incl. names, clan rules) KW - China: Social sciences--Clan and family in transition: general and before 1949 KW - China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 KW - Familles KW - Politique familiale KW - Histoire KW - Droit KW - Chine KW - 20th century. KW - china. KW - chinese culture. KW - chinese history. KW - civil rights. KW - communist party. KW - conjugal family. KW - economic independence. KW - egalitarian society. KW - family order. KW - family reform. KW - government control. KW - human rights. KW - individual rights. KW - marriage choice. KW - modern china. KW - national salvation. KW - nationalism. KW - new culture movement. KW - patriarchy. KW - reform. KW - republican era. KW - social change. KW - sovereignty. KW - state building. KW - surveillance. KW - totalitarianism. KW - urban radicals. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77903044 AB - At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals-desperate for reforms that would save their nation-clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free marriage choice and economic and emotional independence. But what came to be known as the New Culture Movement had the unwitting effect of fostering totalitarianism. In this wide-reaching, engrossing book, Susan Glosser examines how the link between family order and national salvation affected state-building and explores its lasting consequences. Glosser effectively argues that the replacement of the authoritarian, patriarchal, extended family structure with an egalitarian, conjugal family was a way for the nation to preserve crucial elements of its traditional culture. Her comprehensive research shows that in the end, family reform paved the way for the Chinese Communist Party to establish a deeply intrusive state that undermined the legitimacy of individual rights. ER -