Author: Liu Jieyu

With “Embedded Generations,” Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Communist Revolution of 1949.

Grounding her account in the analysis of 260 life history narratives and rich ethnographic data, Liu traces the changing ways families have navigated such experiential milestones as childhood, courtship and marriage, and aging over the past seven decades.

Using generation, the urban-rural divide, and gender as her analytical lenses, she provides an alternative narrative of Chinese family life, countering the Eurocentric accounts of family change.