ABSTRACT
The history of marriage and family from 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, to 1979, when the policy of reform and opening to the outside world was implemented, addressed such issues as the impact of the Agrarian Reform in the early 1950s; the overthrow of clanship and feudal patriarchy in rural areas; and formulation of principles to guarantee freedom of marriage and equality between men and women and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. Other research focused on the questions: Why was divorce always difficult? Why did mercenary marriage, child marriage, discrimination against women and clanship surface again 30 years later? Above all, how did these aspects of family life stand in detail during violent social changes?
