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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.
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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
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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.
