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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.
List of contents
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
AcknowledgmentsNotes
References
Index
About the author
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.
