Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The birth-planning campaign : local experience of population control
  • "Life is to enjoy" : the pursuit of the new ideal of happiness
  • One tiger versus ten mice : raising one successful child
  • "Little quilted vest to warm parents' hearts" : gendered transformation of filial piety
  • "Here comes my big debt" : wedding costs and sons as financial burdens
  • Emerging from the ancestors' shadow : weakened belief in family continuity.