Golden Wing: Sociology of the Chinese family system [Paperback]

By LIN YAO HUA

First published in 1998. This is Volume X of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series and offers a sociological study of Chinese familism. The Golden Wing written in 1948 is a sociological study written in the form of a novel. Its theme is refreshingly simple in conception but like the painting of a bamboo leaf, its austere form conceals a high degree of art. The story sets out to examine why, of two families living side by side in a Fukien village in South China, and related by kinship and business interests, one should continue to prosper through adversity and the other should first flourish and then decline.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415510376
• ISBN13: 9780415510370
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"