Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century

Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational ...

Yunxiang Yan, Ph.D. (1993), is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Flow of Gifts (Stanford U P, 1996), Private Life under Socialism (Stanford U P, 2003), and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, 2009).