All articles from: August, 2010

Who Gets the House? Renegotiating Property Rights in Post-Socialist Urban China

Privatization of urban housing in China has altered the basic parameters of household dissolution from those that prevailed before 1980. For several reasons, divorce was rare during the Mao years, but one critical barrier was employer control over urban housing. Thirty years later, employers no longer supply new flats and the majority of urban couples [...]

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Who Gets the House? Renegotiating Property Rights in Post-Socialist Urban China

Privatization of urban housing in China has altered the basic parameters of household dissolution from those that prevailed before 1980. For several reasons, divorce was rare during the Mao years, but one critical barrier was employer control over urban housing. Thirty years later, employers no longer supply new flats and the majority of urban couples [...]

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