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ABOUT THE BOOK

This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.
By examining the traditional ideas of marriage and family in China against new concepts, state policy changes and market reforms, the Handbook exposes the impact these changes are having on familial structures, traditional institutions and marital ideals. The eminent contributors include established scholars and emerging stars in this area of research, ranging from Australia, China, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the UK and the US.
Working as a comprehensive and convenient reference for future research, this Handbook provides an extensive overview of the key issues in the field. An excellent reference tool for researchers and students of sociology, anthropology, public policy, family studies and China studies, this Handbook provides the knowledge for further research to flourish.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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