Obligated to Care: Intergenerational Family Relations in Contemporary China The Sociological Review Monograph 73.4

“It is often said that the principal institution of Chinese society is the family. This is arguably as true for China today as it was for traditional China, but for different reasons.” The latest volume in The Sociological Review’s long-running Monograph series turns a sociological lens on the family in China today, and the many factors – historical, economic and cultural – that continue to shape it.