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Families in Asia : home and kin

Title
Families in Asia : home and kin / Stella R. Quah.
Author
Quah, Stella R.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008, ©2009.

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Description
xiii, 212 pages; 24 cm
Summary
This edition provides a unique and comparative analysis of family trends in Asia by focusing on the most relevant and significant aspects of family, from the process of dating to the impact of economic development on homes and family life as they are experienced across Asia.
Subject
  • Families > Asia > Cross-cultural studies
  • Families
  • Social conditions
  • Bevölkerungsentwicklung
  • Demographie
  • Familienplanung
  • Familjer > Asien
  • Asia > Social conditions
  • Asia
  • Asien
Genre/Form
Cross-cultural studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-205) and index.
Contents
Studying families in Asia -- 'I do', 'We do': forming and extending families -- Parenthood under siege? -- Age, grandparents and social capital -- From 'his family, her duty' to 'their family': the gender issue -- Conflict, divorce and the family court -- Home, kin and the state in social change.
ISBN
  • 9780415455688
  • 0415455685
  • 9780415455701
  • 0415455707
  • 9780203888506
  • 0203888502
LCCN
2008019515
OCLC
  • ocn227191810
  • 227191810
  • SCSB-14697968
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library