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  • 5 - Reconceptualizing Parent–Child Relations

  • from Part II - Building the Nation through Restructuring the Family
  • Yue Du, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    State and Family in China
    Published online:
    29 October 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 168-202

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 centers around the concept of legal majority that distinguished not only adults from minors but also Republican law that honored such differentiation from Qing law that upheld parental control over grown-up and minor children alike. Marriage, which had once been conceived as a relationship arranged by parents to continue ancestral worship, was reconceptualized as a union formed by and between mature men and women for the purpose of raising minor children to achieve autonomous adulthood. Parents’ lifelong custodial rights over property and labor of their children were replaced by a maintenance regime that entitled aged parents to request financial support, but that prioritized adult sons and daughters’ needs over parental demands.