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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Contributors include: I. Attané, H. Chiang, A. Chow, W. Ding, M. Dowling, L. Eklund, M.W. Feldman, X.-T. Feng, Z. Feng, C. Frazier, A.M. Gaetano, S. Gietel-Basten, W. Jankowiak, Q. Jiang, M.-H. Lee, L. Li, S. Li, D. Miller, A. Phoenix, D.L Poston, J. Ribbens McCarthy, R. Skaggs, J. Song, L. Song, K.F. Ting, P. Wang, X. Wang, Y.R. Xia, A. Xu, X. Xu, X. Xu, W.-S. Yang, G. Yu, X. Zang, L. Zhao, J. Zhang, W. Zhang, L. Zhao, H. Zhu, J. Zuo
Trade Review'This comprehensive Handbook draws together reviews of the literature and historically and theoretically informed cutting edge research in what is sure to be the definitive text on marriage and family in China in the early twenty-first century. The editors have assembled a global dream team that addresses virtually every topic in the field, including sensitive issues such as globalization of marriage, family dynamics, intimacy, sexuality and transgender marriage. Family and marriage in Taiwan and Hong Kong are also addressed.' --Thomas Gold, University of California, Berkeley, US
'This is a masterly work. The two editors, brilliant and experienced experts and scholars on Chinese society, have drawn together a superb team that includes some of the foremost international specialists in their respective fields. The number of relevant topics covered is truly breath-taking. The result is a brilliant, balanced, beautifully integrated, insightful, humane and readable specialist work, which is unsurpassed in its field, and likely to remain so for a long time. I recommend it very strongly indeed.'
--Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia
Table of ContentsContents: 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
