The Demographic Masculinization Of China

Author : Isabelle Attané
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319002361

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The Demographic Masculinization of China by Isabelle Attané Pdf

This book describes the shortage of girls and women in present day China and focuses on two important features: the sex imbalance in childhood and youth, and the excess mortality of women at various stages of their life. The author analyzes the causes and the processes of a strong preference for sons, which generates discrimination toward females and results in a shortage of girls and women. China’s higher proportion of men than women is a population characteristic that is shared by very few countries in the world. This demographic masculinity is unprecedented in the documented history of human populations, both in scale and its lasting impact on the numbers and the structure of the population. Despite the economic boom of recent years, many families in China still consider girls to be less important than boys. Although Chinese women have become largely emancipated since the 1950s, they still do not have the same opportunities for social achievement as men, and Chinese society remains fundamentally rooted in highly gendered social and family roles. As a consequence, Chinese girl babies who have the misfortune to be born instead of a long-awaited son go by various names, such as Pandi (literally "awaiting a son"), Laidi ("a son will follow"), or Yehao ("she'll do too"). The book provides a comprehensive review of the situation of women in China’s society and shows that discrimination against girls and women is part of a system of norms and values that traditionally favours males.

Author : Isabelle Attane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3319002376

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The Demographic Masculinization of China by Isabelle Attane Pdf

Author : Isabelle Attané,Baochang Gu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401789875

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Analysing China's Population by Isabelle Attané,Baochang Gu Pdf

Based on China’s recently released 2010 population census data, this edited volume analyses the most recent demographic trends in China, in the context of significant social and economic upheavals. The editor and the expert contributors describe the main features of China’s demography, and focus on the details of this latest phase of its demographic transition. The book explores such striking characteristics of China’s demography as the changing age and sex population structure; recent trends in marriage and divorce; fertility trends with a focus on sex imbalance at birth; the demography of the ethnic minorities and recent mortality trends by sex. Analysing China's Population: Social Change in a New Demographic Era examines and assesses the impact of changes that in the coming decades will be crucial for individuals, and the larger society and economy of the nation.

Author : Sampson Lee Blair,Timothy J. Madigan,Fang Fang
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787693333

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Mate Selection in China by Sampson Lee Blair,Timothy J. Madigan,Fang Fang Pdf

This book examines the changing nature of dating and mate selection in contemporary China, and addresses a wide array of both causes and consequences concerning mate selection, including economic change, traditional cultural norms, evolving gender roles, and both marriage and fertility aspirations.

Author : Xiaowei Zang,Lucy Xia Zhao
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785368196

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Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China by Xiaowei Zang,Lucy Xia Zhao Pdf

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.

Author : Czeslaw Tubilewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317422990

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Critical Issues in Contemporary China by Czeslaw Tubilewicz Pdf

Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China. Organized around three interrelated themes of unity, stability and development, each chapter explores distinct issues and debate their significance for China domestically and for Beijing’s engagement with the wider world. While presenting contending explanatory approaches, contributors advance arguments to further critical discussion on selected topics. Main issues analysed include: political change military transformation legal reforms economic development energy security environmental degradation food security and safety demographic trends migration and urbanization labour unrest health and education social inequalities ethnic conflicts Hong Kong’s integration cross-Strait relations. Given its thorough and up-to-date assessment of major political, social and economic challenges facing China, this fully revised and substantially expanded new edition is an essential read for any student of Chinese Studies.

Author : Matthew H. Sommer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520287037

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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China by Matthew H. Sommer Pdf

Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband." Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.

Author : Nancy E. Riley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745688671

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Population in China by Nancy E. Riley Pdf

China is home to a fifth of the world's inhabitants. For the last several decades, this huge population has been in flux: fertility has fallen sharply, mortality has declined, and massive rural-to-urban migration is taking place. The state has played a direct role in these changes, seeing population control as an important part of its intention to modernize the country. In this insightful new work, Nancy E. Riley argues that China's population policies and outcomes are not simply imposed by the state onto an unresponsive citizenry, but have arisen from the social organization of China over the past sixty years. Riley demonstrates how China's population and population policy are intertwined and interact with other social and economic features. Riley also examines the unintended consequences of state directives, including the extraordinary number of missing girls, the rapid aging of the population, and an increase in inequality, particularly between rural and urban residents. Ultimately, China's demographic story has to be understood as a complex, multi-pieced phenomenon. This book will be essential reading for researchers and students of China and social demography, as well as non-specialists interested in the changing nature of China's population.

Author : Donovan C. Chau,Thomas M. Kane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216060130

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China and International Security by Donovan C. Chau,Thomas M. Kane Pdf

The first work of its kind, this strategic assessment of China's national security reveals the nation's intentions, capabilities, and threats—and their implications for the United States and the world. As China continues to develop the strategic means to advance its national interests in Asia and around the world, assessing its role in international security is the greatest strategic challenge now faced by the United States and its allies. China and International Security facilitates this critically important understanding, analyzing topics that range from strategic geography and orientation to gender ratios. Using detailed case studies and sharing expert insights, the work provides historical, internal, and contemporary analyses that reveal the nature and character of China's national security. This three-volume set is written for scholars, students, and policymakers. The volumes offer in-depth articles penned by intelligence professionals and journalists, as well as entries by scholars in fields as diverse as international politics, history, and strategic studies. While other works may attempt to predict the future of China's rise or the nature of China's future bilateral relationships, none so thoroughly examines the totality of China's domestic, regional, and international security—and their implications.

Author : Laura Rahm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030202347

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Gender-Biased Sex Selection in South Korea, India and Vietnam by Laura Rahm Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of public policy on sex selection. Three Asian countries were chosen for the comparative policy analysis, namely South Korea, India and Vietnam that share in common a historical legacy of son preference, high levels of sex imbalances and active policy response to curbing the growing demographic masculinization of their nations. The research based on the data collected from field work in the three countries shows that despite the adoption of very similar anti-sex selection policies the outcomes have been markedly different for each of the three countries. These unexpected diverse outcomes are explained partly by their different historical and cultural contexts, and partly to the different social, political and economic institutions and dynamics. This monograph offers careful and detailed explanations of both within and across country diversities in policy outcomes, pointing to the importance and the limits of cross-national policy learning and adoption, and raising questions about the efficacy of international organizations’ current approaches to global policy and knowledge transfer.

Author : Yonjoo Cho,Rajashi Ghosh,Judy Y. Sun,Gary N. McLean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319549965

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Current Perspectives on Asian Women in Leadership by Yonjoo Cho,Rajashi Ghosh,Judy Y. Sun,Gary N. McLean Pdf

This book explores the unique socioeconomic challenges encountered by female leaders in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries where traditional cultural expectations and modernized values coexist. It provides insight into gender inequality and underutilization of female talent as well as ways to develop highly qualified women in organizations. Chapters from expert contributors analyze the similarities and differences between each Asian country, the organizational and institutional challenges for women in the workplace, and how they balance work-family relationships. It will appeal to researchers and students in human resource development, management, leadership, Asia studies, women’s studies, and political science, among others.

Author : Deevia Bhana,Yuwei Xu,Vina Adriany
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003818496

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Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education by Deevia Bhana,Yuwei Xu,Vina Adriany Pdf

This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. In this book, the contributors explore how gender, culture, religion, masculinity, sport, and conservative politics intersect to perpetuate and resist gendered and sexual norms. The book presents a range of possibilities for disrupting and challenging these norms within early childhood educational contexts. Grounded in colonial and postcolonial discourses, the book emphasises the entanglement of gender and sexuality in ECE with legacies of colonisation and surrounding social and cultural dynamics, highlighting our responsibility to address gender inequalities and injustices. The book will appeal to researchers, faculty, and teacher educators with interests in gender and sexuality in education, international and comparative education, and early childhood education.

Author : Susan Greenhalgh,Edwin A. Winckler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804748802

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Governing China's Population by Susan Greenhalgh,Edwin A. Winckler Pdf

'Governing China's Population' tells the story of political and cultural shifts, from the perspectives of both regime and society.

Author : Wang Zheng
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520292284

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Finding Women in the State by Wang Zheng Pdf

Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early PeopleÕs Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation to the cultural realm, showing how feminists within ChinaÕs film industry were working to actively create new cinematic heroines, and how they continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party. Wang discusses the causes for failure of ChinaÕs socialist revolution and raises fundamental questions about male dominance in social movements that aim to pursue social justice and equality. This is the first book engendering the PRC high politics and has important theoretical and methodological implications for scholars and students working in gender studies as well as China studies.

Author : Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520300460

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Intimate Communities by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.