Jingjing Chen, Xiaoling Shu

Chinese Marriages in Transition

From Patriarchy to New Familism

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Produktbeschreibung

Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the nuanced and multidirectional nature of the transformations in Chinese marriage, gender roles, and family. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that Chinese new familism consists of values both old and new.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978804678
• ISBN-10: 1978804679
• Artikelnr.: 67451804

Autorenporträt

XIAOLING SHU is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences: A Data Mining Approach. JINGJING CHEN is a mixed-methods researcher at Google, who lives in Berkeley, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword
BY PÉTER BERTA
1 Introduction: The Second Demographic Transition and the Chinese Gender
and Family System 
2 From Patriarchy to New Familism: The Chinese Gender and Family System
3 Flexible Traditionalism Ideology: Global Comparison and Historical
Transformation
4 Changing Patterns of Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and
Fertility
5 New Familism: Changing Gender, Family, Marriage, and Sexual Values
6 Fertility and Divorce: Are Number and Gender of Children Associated with
Divorce
7 Marital Dynamics: Housework, Breadwinning, Decision-Making, and Marital
Satisfaction
8 Conclusion: Convergence, Contradictions, and Changes in the Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index