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Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China
Edited by Xiaowei Zang and Lucy X. Zhao
This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 29 Dec 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781785368189
- eISBN:
- 9781785368196
- Pages:
- c 464
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- Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: State of the field: the family and marriage in China
- Chapter 2: The effects of demographic change on marriage and the family in China
- Chapter 3: Changes in Chinese urban family structure
- Chapter 4: Mate selection, intimacy, and marital love in Chinese society
- Chapter 5: Mate selection in rural China
- Chapter 6: Foreign-related marriages in contemporary China, 1979–2013
- Chapter 7: Educational homogamy
- Chapter 8: China’s ‘leftover women’: myths and realities
- Chapter 9: Son preference and the marriage squeeze in China
- Chapter 10: Marriage squeeze and mate selection in China
- Chapter 11: China’s one-child policy and the changing family
- Chapter 12: Family planning and fertility transition in China
- Chapter 13: Fertility patterns on family finance in rural China
- Chapter 14: Parental investment in children’s schooling in China
- Chapter 15: Childlessness and the well-being of Chinese seniors
- Chapter 16: Gender patterns in financial support to parents in China
- Chapter 17: Filial piety and old-age support in China: tradition, continuity, and change
- Chapter 18: Childhood, children, and family lives in China
- Chapter 19: Globalisation and international adoption from China
- Chapter 20: Marital construction of family decision-making power
- Chapter 21: Marital instability in post-reform China
- Chapter 22: Marriage and suicide among women in rural China
- Chapter 23: Death in the family – bereavement and mourning in contemporary China
- Chapter 24: Transgender in China
- Chapter 25: Family and marriage in contemporary Taiwan
- Chapter 26: The marriage institution in Hong Kong: past and present
- Index
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- Published:
- 29 December 2017
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- iv (1 total)
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Social and Political Science 2017
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- Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: State of the field: the family and marriage in China
- Chapter 2: The effects of demographic change on marriage and the family in China
- Chapter 3: Changes in Chinese urban family structure
- Chapter 4: Mate selection, intimacy, and marital love in Chinese society
- Chapter 5: Mate selection in rural China
- Chapter 6: Foreign-related marriages in contemporary China, 1979–2013
- Chapter 7: Educational homogamy
- Chapter 8: China’s ‘leftover women’: myths and realities
- Chapter 9: Son preference and the marriage squeeze in China
- Chapter 10: Marriage squeeze and mate selection in China
- Chapter 11: China’s one-child policy and the changing family
- Chapter 12: Family planning and fertility transition in China
- Chapter 13: Fertility patterns on family finance in rural China
- Chapter 14: Parental investment in children’s schooling in China
- Chapter 15: Childlessness and the well-being of Chinese seniors
- Chapter 16: Gender patterns in financial support to parents in China
- Chapter 17: Filial piety and old-age support in China: tradition, continuity, and change
- Chapter 18: Childhood, children, and family lives in China
- Chapter 19: Globalisation and international adoption from China
- Chapter 20: Marital construction of family decision-making power
- Chapter 21: Marital instability in post-reform China
- Chapter 22: Marriage and suicide among women in rural China
- Chapter 23: Death in the family – bereavement and mourning in contemporary China
- Chapter 24: Transgender in China
- Chapter 25: Family and marriage in contemporary Taiwan
- Chapter 26: The marriage institution in Hong Kong: past and present
- Index