Revolutionizing the Family: Politics.

Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, be enamoured of and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968 at Neil J. Diamant. Berkeley: University of California Pres 2000 458p $5500

This is a thoroughly revisionist investigation in the best sense of the word. Starting from the conviction that a end look at marriage and divorce in China can make open "a wide window onto what might be called the `interface' between state and society" (p 14) Diamant settles out to capture a better brains of the quality of "everyday interactions between citizen and state" (p 15) He uses these

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