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Historically, the traditional extended family has been China's built-in social security system. Today, under the pressures of family size limits, rapid urbanization, and Western cultural influences, China's social stability is being stressed to the breaking point. This program captures a transitional phase of Chinese history in which many parents are struggling to instill Confucian values and their own received wisdom about life into their children-teens...

"Where a widely accepted Confucian-based ideology once offered a standard framework for family life, current ideas offer no such uniformity. Ties of affection rather than duty have become prominent in determining what individuals feel they owe to their spouses, parents, children, and others. Chinese millennials, facing a world of opportunities and, at the same time, feeling a sense of heavy obligation, are reshaping patterns of courtship, marriage,...

When the Japanese take Nanking, Ling Tan and his family must adjust to the changes in their lives and become guerilla fighters.

In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese...

The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck, is a historical fiction novel that was published on March 2, 1931. A year later it won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Good Earth sold well and resulted in Pearl S. Buck writing two more novels in the same trilogy, Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). The novel is about a Chinese family who lives in a village on the cusp of World War I. It tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family...