This book analyzes how Chinese people use their time, including how busy Chinese seek a healthy work-life balance, how some children win from the outset in terms of education, and how people pursue quality of life outside of or after work. General readers will get a vivid and detailed impression of the way Chinese people spend their time, while researchers will find a wealth of phenomena and data for analysis from both economic and social perspectives. The research presented here was conducted in the context of the Chinese Time Use Survey (CTUS), a nationwide initiative launched by Inner Mongolia University in 2017. The CTUS covers 29 Chinese provinces, and the database contains the time use information of 30,591 people aged 3 years and over from 12,471 households. The survey collects information at three main levels: personal, family and community.
Part I. Footsteps of Time Pursuit: Survey Methods and General Situation.- Chapter 1. Survey Methods.- Chapter 2. Overview of Time Use.- Part II. Busy Chinese People: Balance Between Work and Family.- Chapter 1. Office workers in a hurry.- Chapter 2. Gender Differences in Unpaid Labour.- Chapter 3. The "Backing home" Women.- Chapter 4. Time Use of Disadvantaged Group.- Part III. Winning at the Starting Line: Education and Development in China.- Chapter 1. Equity in Education from the Perspective of Time Utilization of School-age Children.- Chapter 2. Equity in Education from the Perspective of Family Child Care Time Input.- Chapter 3. Are children lack of sleeping?.- Chapter 4. "Happy" College StudentsPart IV. After Work: The Pursuit of Quality of Life.- Chapter 1. Social Differences in Leisure Societies.- Chapter 2. Are Chinese Elders Happy.- Chapter 3. Chinese-style Couples.- Chapter 4. The Impact ofMobile Phone Use on Residents Time Utilization.
Fenglian Du, professor of economics, doctoral supervisor, Sino-US Fulbright Program visiting scholar,vice president of Inner Mongolia University, dean of School of Economics and Management of Inner Mongolia University, director of Survey and Research Center for China Time Use of Inner Mongolia University. Selected by the "New Century Excellent Talents Plan" of the Ministry of Education and State-Council Allowance Expert. Her research fields are labor market issues and regional industrial development. Her papers have been published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Economy, China Population Resources and Environment and other journals. Currently, her main research fields are time utilization, intergenerational transmission of education and economy and regional coordinated development.
Wenbin Wang, Ph.D. of Economics, deputy director of China Time Use Survey and Research Center of Inner Mongolia University. His research field are labor economics, time use economics and urban economics.
Xiaoyuan Dong, professor of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Winnipeg, associate editor-in-chief of Feminist Economics, member of International Association for Feminist Economics. Her research areas are China's economic transformation, labor market, gender and women's status. Her articles have been published in many international core academic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Feminist Economics and so on. Her current research areas are unpaid care, time use, social gender, etc.
