Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China

Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 State of the field: the family and marriage in China • Xiaowei Zang and Lucy Xia Zhao
2 The effects of demographic change on marriage and the family in China • Dudley L. Poston
3 Changes in Chinese urban family structure • Yan Ruth Xia and Anqi Xu
4 Mate selection, intimacy, and marital love in Chinese society • William Jankowiak
5 Mate selection in rural China • Jing Song and Lulu Li
6 Foreign-related marriages in contemporary China, 1979‒2013 • Pan Wang
7 Educational homogamy • Lijun Song, Rachel Skaggs, and Cleothia Frazier
8 China’s ‘leftover women’: myths and realities • Arianne M. Gaetano
9 Son preference and the marriage squeeze in China • Shuzhuo Li, Quanbao Jiang, and Marcus Feldman
10 Marriage squeeze and mate selection in China • Lisa Eklund and Isabelle Attané
11 China’s one-child policy and the changing family • Xiaotian Feng, Dudley L. Poston, and Xiaotao Wang
12 Family planning and fertility transition in China • Stuart Gietel-Basten
13 Fertility patterns on family finance in rural China • Weili Ding
14 Parental investment in children’s schooling in China • Ming-Hsuan Lee
15 Childlessness and the well-being of Chinese seniors • Weiguo Zhang
16 Gender patterns in financial support to parents in China • Haiyan Zhu
17 Filial piety and old-age support in China: tradition, continuity, and change • Zhanlian Feng
18 Childhood, children, and family lives in China • Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Ann Phoenix, with Guo Yu and Xiaoli Xu
19 Globalisation and international adoption from China • Monica Dowling
20 Marital construction of family decision-making power • Jiping Zuo
21 Marital instability in post-reform China • Xiaohe Xu and Donna Miller
22 Marriage and suicide among women in rural China • Jie Zhang
23 Death in the family – bereavement and mourning in contemporary China • Amy Y.M. Chow
24 Transgender in China • Howard Chiang
25 Family and marriage in contemporary Taiwan • Wen-Shan Yang
26 The marriage institution in Hong Kong: past and present • Kwok-fai Ting
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