Family values and the one-child policy: attitudes of affluent urban China daughters

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dc.contributor.authorLee, Gigi Nga Chi
dc.contributor.supervisorWoon, Yuen-fong
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-11T22:07:39Z
dc.date.available2007-09-11T22:07:39Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2007-09-11T22:07:39Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Pacific and Asian Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the one-child policy as viewed by the present generation of single daughters who grew up in urban China, and the extent to which this policy has affected their family values. Through snowball sampling methods, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 unmarried only-child daughters from urban China now studying in Victoria and Vancouver. For purposes of comparison, 11 unmarried only-child daughters of the same generation were also interviewed in Hong Kong during the same time period. The findings revealed that some only-child daughters from urban China experienced low dissemination and enforcement of the one-child policy and expressed noncompliance and dissatisfaction towards the policy. A comparison between the China and Hong Kong samples indicates that the one-child policy has limited effect on the family values of the only-child daughters in urban China. By exploring the concept of governmentality, the demographic transition theory, and the concept of resistance, this thesis aims to address the dynamics between action of state power and the reaction of only-child daughters from urban China born under the one-child policy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/229
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectOne-Child Policyen_US
dc.subjectfamily valuesen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectwomenen_US
dc.subjectgovernmentalityen_US
dc.subjectdemographic transition theoryen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectindividualismen_US
dc.subjectConfucianismen_US
dc.subjectonly-childen_US
dc.subjecteducateden_US
dc.subjecturbanen_US
dc.subjectaffluenten_US
dc.subjectoverseas Chineseen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectHong Kong
dc.subjectqualitative approach
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Sociology::Demographyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Sociology::Familyen_US
dc.titleFamily values and the one-child policy: attitudes of affluent urban China daughtersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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