1st Edition

The Chinese Family Today

Edited By Anqi XU, John DeFrain, Wenrong LIU Copyright 2017
300 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it. The Chinese family is also changing in many ways in response to the economic transformation that is moving the world’s most populous nation from an agrarian economy to a global superpower. This is the first book in English to describe and explain the social transformation of the Chinese... Read more

Introduction XU Anqi 1. Family Structure XU Anqi, XUE Yali 2. Population and Procreation ZHUANG Yuxia 3. Child Care and Nurture XU Zhening 4. The Establishment and Dissolution of Marriage XU Anqi 5. Gender Roles XU Anqi 6. Intergenerational Support LIU Wenrong 7. The Quality of Family Life and Lifestyle ZHANG Liang Afterword XU Anqi

Biography

    XU Anqi is the Vice-Chairman of the Marriage and Family Research Association of China, and Director of the Family Sociological Committee for the Chinese Association of Sociology.

    John DeFrain is a Professor Emeritus of family studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

    LIU Wenrong is an Associate Professor of sociology in the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China.