Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China

Description

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. By examining the traditional ideas of marriage and family in China against new concepts, state policy changes and market reforms, the Handbook exposes the impact these changes are having on familial structures, traditional institutions and marital ideals. The eminent contributors include established scholars and emerging stars in this area of research, ranging from Australia, China, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the UK and the US. Working as a comprehensive and convenient reference for future research, this Handbook provides an extensive overview of the key issues in the field. An excellent reference tool for researchers and students of sociology, anthropology, public policy, family studies and China studies, this Handbook provides the knowledge for further research to flourish. Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 State of the field: the family and marriage in China • Xiaowei Zang and Lucy Xia Zhao 2 The effects of demographic change on marriage and the family in China • Dudley L. Poston 3 Changes in Chinese urban family structure • Yan Ruth Xia and Anqi Xu 4 Mate selection, intimacy, and marital love in Chinese society • William Jankowiak 5 Mate selection in rural China • Jing Song and Lulu Li 6 Foreign-related marriages in contemporary China, 1979‒2013 • Pan Wang 7 Educational homogamy • Lijun Song, Rachel Skaggs, and Cleothia Frazier 8 China’s ‘leftover women’: myths and realities • Arianne M. Gaetano 9 Son preference and the marriage squeeze in China • Shuzhuo Li, Quanbao Jiang, and Marcus Feldman 10 Marriage squeeze and mate selection in China • Lisa Eklund and Isabelle Attané 11 China’s one-child policy and the changing family • Xiaotian Feng, Dudley L. Poston, and Xiaotao Wang 12 Family planning and fertility transition in China • Stuart Gietel-Basten 13 Fertility patterns on family finance in rural China • Weili Ding 14 Parental investment in children’s schooling in China • Ming-Hsuan Lee 15 Childlessness and the well-being of Chinese seniors • Weiguo Zhang 16 Gender patterns in financial support to parents in China • Haiyan Zhu 17 Filial piety and old-age support in China: tradition, continuity, and change • Zhanlian Feng 18 Childhood, children, and family lives in China • Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Ann Phoenix, with Guo Yu and Xiaoli Xu 19 Globalisation and international adoption from China • Monica Dowling 20 Marital construction of family decision-making power • Jiping Zuo 21 Marital instability in post-reform China • Xiaohe Xu and Donna Miller 22 Marriage and suicide among women in rural China • Jie Zhang 23 Death in the family – bereavement and mourning in contemporary China • Amy Y.M. Chow 24 Transgender in China • Howard Chiang 25 Family and marriage in contemporary Taiwan • Wen-Shan Yang 26 The marriage institution in Hong Kong: past and present • Kwok-fai Ting Index