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

本研究项目旨在研究农村的老龄化问题， 中国 该研究人员将重点关注中国新的 老年人及其家庭生活的影响 这两个村庄提出了不同的建议， 现代化计划。 这个项目提供了一个难得的机会， 老年学理论通过研究非西方的老龄化。 社会处于大规模经济计划的第一阶段 现代化 它将为今后的研究提供基线数据 和关于农村老年人的资料， 在学术研究中被忽视。 亚洲的人口压力是全世界关注的问题。 亚洲 将成为世界上下一个拥有大量 老人 中国限制家庭规模的政治补救措施将 有意想不到的深远的副作用。 本研究 将调查这样一个影响，帮助我们衡量一个新的 贫困老年人的下层阶级正在形成。 这 研究将提供必要的信息，以确定中国的 成功地满足了迅速增长的老年人的需求 人口

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.