Fertility and Childcare in East Asia
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This textbook explores recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, intergenerational support, and family in select East Asian societies, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. it uncovers dynamic and evolving couple and intergenerational relationships, together with the persistent impact on time use, housework and childcare.

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This textbook explores recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, intergenerational support, and family in select East Asian societies, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. it uncovers dynamic and evolving couple and intergenerational relationships, together with the persistent impact on time use, housework and childcare.
Autorenporträt
Xiaogang Wu is the Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science, Professor of Sociology at New York University and NYU Shanghai, and the Founding Director of Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) at NYU Shanghai. Wu is a leading scholar in research on Chinese inequality and social stratification. He has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he has been serving as the Chief Editor of the Chinese Sociological Review since 2011, Associate Editor (Social Stratification) of Sociology Compass (2023-2025), and a Global Scholar at Princeton University (2020-2024). Muzhi Zhou is Assistant Professor at the Urban Governance and Design Thrust of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China. Her research focuses on the role of marriage and parenthood in shaping people's attitudes, income, and time use, with a particular emphasis on cross-country comparisons. Additionally, she explores the intersection between the digital world and our physical world, examining how digital technology affects and is affected by our daily lives. Man-Yee Kan is Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include gender inequalities in the family and the labor market, time use research, ethnicity, and migration. She has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (2018-2026) for the project GenTime, which investigates gender inequalities in time use in East Asian and Western societies. Her more recent research focuses on the migration of Hong Kong people.