Abstract We use oral history materials from elderly rural people aged over seventy to analyze the circumstances of rural family production and daily life prior to collectivization in the mid-1950s; during collectivization in the 1950s to the 1970s; and under the household contract responsibility system of the late 1970s. We find that the transition from the traditional to the nuclear family did not involve industrialization in the traditional Western sense. As an early state industrialization strategy after 1949, rural collectivization fundamentally changed the organizational pattern of traditional family production and daily life and of inter-generational relations and structures under the patriarchal system, launching the historical process of structural transition in the family. This explanation differs from the classic “theory of modernization” of family change.

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土地集体化与传统农村家庭的结构转型

摘要我们利用70岁以上老年人的口述史资料，分析了1950年代中期集体化之前农村家庭生产和日常生活的情况。在1950年代到1970年代的集体化时期；并根据1970年代后期的家庭合同责任制。我们发现，从传统家庭到核心家庭的过渡并不涉及西方传统意义上的工业化。农村集体化作为1949年后的早期国家工业化战略，从根本上改变了父权制下传统家庭生产和日常生活以及代际关系和结构的组织方式，开启了家庭结构转型的历史进程。