Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

China's one-child policy is one of the largest and most controversial social engineering
projects in human history. With the extreme restrictions it imposed on reproduction, the …

Over the last four decades, as China has transitioned from a socialist centralized economy to
a productivity-and-efficiency-oriented market economy, so too have the country's public and …

In today's Chinese society, we see more and more well-educated, well-paid, and
independent career women. However, as traditional femininity has been associated with …

This article employs in-depth interviews with 64 female authors of Yaoi fiction, a popular
online narrative genre among young Chinese women, to examine the discursive strategies …

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing
pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class …

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages,
fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children …

In the last 10 years, the term 'leftover women'(剩女)—educated, unmarried women over the
age of 27—has emerged as a visible stereotype in popular consciousness in China. Despite …

Rates of initial marriage have fallen in China since the late 1980s. This study ascribes part of
this decline to a rise in house prices over the same period. Chinese social norms mandate …

Abstract The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) is a useful theoretical framework for
explaining the recent trend in many countries of very low fertility combined with alternative …