Stanford University Press has published Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lihong Shi’s book Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. The book explores an emerging reproductive pattern in rural China in which a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter.
Shi delves into the social, economic and cultural forces behind the complex decision-making process of these couples to unravel their life goals and child-rearing aspirations, the changing family dynamics and gender relations, and the intimate parent–daughter ties that have engendered this drastic transformation of reproductive choice.