Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968.(Review) (book review)

Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968. By Neil J. Diamant. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 458p. $55.00.

This is a thoroughly revisionist study, in the best sense of the word. Starting from the conviction that a close look at marriage and divorce in China can open "a wide window onto what might be called the `interface' between state and society" (p. 14), Diamant sets out to capture a better sense of the quality of "everyday interactions between citizen and state" (p. 15). He uses these ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.