(^13) Cf. the research by Wang Yuesheng, Social transformation and family shift : based on a study of
Southern Hebei Area during 1930-1990, http ://www.npopsscn.gov.cn/cgxjwzh/sh/rkw1.htm.
(^14) Housework and economic problems are the second and third causes of conflicts between cou-
ples. Cf. Shao Xiazhen, The varieties in the marriage of Chinese agricultural women during the
social transformation, in http ://www.cass.net.cn/ webnew/show_news.asp ?id=5778.
(^15) Qian Mansu, Emerson and China, Beijing : Sanlian Press, 1996, p. 212.
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