Full Description
Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the complex, nuanced, and multidirectional nature of these cultural transformations. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that, while the second demographic transition is unfolding in many advanced Western societies, it is not necessarily a normative form of societal transition. Working instead from a framework of "new familism," Shu and Chen show that Chinese new familism consists of both old and new values, including the persistence of some traditional beliefs and practices, accompanied by a transition to modern perceptions of gender, and adaption to some modern forms of family formation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)- a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries-and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.
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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
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
