Dissertation Research: The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on the Rural Elderly

本研究项目旨在研究中国农村的老龄化问题。研究人员将重点关注中国的新经济制度对两个村庄的老年人及其家庭生活的影响，这两个村庄在现代化计划下提出了不同的建议。这个项目提供了一个难得的机会，通过研究非人类的衰老来检验当前的老年学理论。西方社会正处于大规模经济现代化计划的第一阶段。它将为今后在亚洲的研究提供基线数据，并为学术研究中经常被忽视的农村老年人提供信息。亚洲的人口压力是一个世界性的问题。广泛关注。亚洲将是世界上下一个拥有大量老年人口的地区。中国限制家庭规模的政治补救措施将产生意想不到的深远影响。达到副作用。这项研究将通过帮助我们判断一个新的贫困老年人下层阶级是否正在形成，来调查这样的影响之一。这项研究将提供必要的信息，以确定中国在解决其迅速扩大的老年人口的需求方面取得的成功。

This research project is designed to study aging in rural China. The researcher will focus on the impact of China's new economic system on the lives of the elderly and their families in two villages which have proposered differently under modernization programs. This project offers a rare opportunity to test current gerontological theories by examining aging in a non.Western society in the first phase of a massive program of economic modernization. It will provide base line data for future studies in Asia and information on the rural elderly who are often overlooked in scholarly studies. Population pressures in Asia are a world.wide concern. Asia will be the next area of the world to have large populations of elderly. China's political remedies of limiting family size will have unexpected and far.reaching side effects. This research will investigate one such effect by helping us gage whether a new underclass of impoverished elderly is being created. This research will provide information necessary to determing China's success in addressing the needs of its rapidly expanding elderly population.