Goncalo Santos is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hong Kong. Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. The contributors are Melissa J. Brown, Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Harriet Evans, Suzanne Gottschang, William Jankowiak, Andrew B. Kipnis, Kerstin Klein, Xuan Li, Helena Obendiek, Lihong Shi, Roberta Zavoretti, and Hong Zhang.

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Introduction / Stevan Harrell and Gonçalo Santos
Part One | Rural Reconfigurations
1. Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women's Economic Contributions / Melissa J. Brown 000
2. From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China / Lihong Shi
3. Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China / Helena Obendiek
4. Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China / Gonçalo Santos
Part Two | Class, Gender, and Patriarchy in Urban Society
5. Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong / Andrew B. Kipnis
6. Being the Right Woman for "Mr. Right": Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing / Roberta Zavoretti
7. Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power / William Jankowiak and Xuan Li
8. Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains / Elisabeth L. Engebretsen
9. Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood / Harriet Evans
Part Three | New Technologies, New Institutions
10. Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? / Suzanne Gottschang
11. Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate / Kerstin Klein
12. Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China / Hong Zhang
Glossary
References
List of Contributors
Index

Edited by Goncalo Santos and Stevan Harrell