State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter, Gail

doi:10.1017/s0021911804002396

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“…Further, Chinese mothers are now even more active in the labor force than in the past. This combined with the fast evolving technology has led to modern, evolving lifestyles and consumption patterns (Sin et al, 2001;Hershatter, 2004). Thus, adolescents in China may be allowed considerable influence in the final decision too.…”

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Adolescent influence in family purchase decisions: An update and cross-national extension

Wang

Holloway

Beatty

et al. 2007

Journal of Business Research

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Adolescent influence in family purchase decisions: An update and cross-national extension

Wang

Holloway

Beatty

et al. 2007

Journal of Business Research

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“…The effect of these changes has been to promote individual marriage choice and to increase the equality of women in families, as well as in society (Hershatter, 2004), Subsequent laws have further strengthened the position of women in marriage and established more liberal divorce laws. Gradually, the purpose of marriage, especially in urban areas, has shifted from utility and responsibility toward mutual respect, admiration, and an expression of love between individuals (Chen & Li, 2007;Guo & Huang, 2005), Despite these changes, China remains a strong collectivist society.…”

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Marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms in China.

Miller¹,

Mason²,

Canlas³

et al. 2013

Journal of Family Psychology

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Although there is substantial evidence that low marital satisfaction is a significant risk factor for depression, little research has examined this relationship in cultures outside of the U.S. and Europe. The validity of the marital discord model of depression in Chinese culture was tested by studying 391 couples living in Beijing and Hangzhou, China. Results of structural equation modeling using an actor-partner interdependence model strategy indicated that husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction was significantly predictive of their own depressive symptoms. In addition, wives' marital satisfaction significantly predicted husbands' depressive symptoms. These results provide evidence that the marital discord model of depression is useful in understanding the role of marital dissatisfaction as a risk factor for depressive symptoms in collectivistic societies, such as China.

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“…Mao's oft-repeated adage that 'women hold up half the sky' is still in use today by some government officials, and since the earliest days of China's communist party, Chinese women have been expected to play an active role in building the nation, even as that role has shifted to meet changing social and economic needs. As Gail Hershatter (2004Hershatter ( , 1028 notes, 'In twentieth-century China, women were the site at which national modernity was imagined.' From the outset, the communist party did its utmost to discard the old ways embodied in Confucianism and feudalism, which were blamed for China's backwardness, in particular with regards to women.…”

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“…The state-run media dutifully reported and portrayed women's equality as well as their role in the revolution and economic production, yet this was obviously a 'reductionist theory of women's liberation' (Hershatter 2004(Hershatter , 1023. A key aspect of this era was that women relied on the state for their status while deeply embedded cultural and structural impediments to women's true equality were never eliminated.…”

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Chinese Women in the Official Chinese Press: Discursive Constructions of Gender in Service to the State

Wallis

2006

WPCC

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Theories of gender and the nation posit that women are prescribed certain roles according to the needs of the state at a particular historical moment and that such roles are frequently articulated in media discourses. In China, the government has a long-standing tradition of using the state-run media to convey a national vision and mould its citizens. Hence, the mediated representation of Chinese women has ebbed and flowed according to radical shifts in government policy and ideology. In recent decades, massive economic and social changes have necessitated a quest for legitimacy on the part of the government through a vast reorganization of the country's ideological environment, including the official construction of gender. This paper discusses three discursive representations of women currently articulated in state-run Chinese newspapers -worker, housewife, and consumer -and examines how the government press emphasizes the equality of Chinese women while simultaneously positioning them as inferior to men.

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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Cited by 77 publications

References 258 publications

Adolescent influence in family purchase decisions: An update and cross-national extension

Adolescent influence in family purchase decisions: An update and cross-national extension

Marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms in China.

Chinese Women in the Official Chinese Press: Discursive Constructions of Gender in Service to the State

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