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We know the Chinese as villagers who carefully tend small plots of land using family labor, marry young, want many sons, and live in extended families—"the Chinese Way." Now for the first time we find Han Chinese "cowboys" who raise dairy cows and herd sheep on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. This book, based on surveys and intensive interviews, compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers. The authors find that livestock have brought new wealth and opportunities that change the Chinese farming-based way of life, and they explore how...

Using data from the Taiwan household registers established by Japanese colonial authorities from 1906 to 1946, Pasternak explores the sources and demographic consequences of variations in marriage and family life and questions long-held assumptions about the nature of Chinese society.