Title: Family Reform through Divorce Law in the PRC
Abstract: ford of UCLA provided bibliographic direction and patient guidance.Seven persons from the People's Republic of China offered invaluable advice during individual interviews conducted by the author.The group included a recent immigrant, a twotime divorcee, two visiting students, two visiting scholars, and a visiting professor.All translations are the author's own translations except noted otherwise.I am responsible for all errors herein.1. Two reasons are given for the Chinese Communists' view that the traditional family is the "embodiment of all evil."One is economic and the other is political.The traditional family hindered economic progress by keeping women from participation in economic life.Politically, the old family focused an individual's loyalties upon his own family and thus failed to meet the demands of the Party.See Meijer,