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Mate Selection in China: Causes and Consequences in the Search for a Spouse

Mate Selection in China: Causes and Consequences in the Search for a Spouse

Madigan, Timothy J.
Blair, Sampson Lee
Fang, Fang

Hardcover

General SociologyRelationships

ISBN10: 1787693325
ISBN13: 9781787693326
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: Apr 21 2022
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In the context of dramatically changing contemporary patterns of mate selection in China, Mate Selection in China focuses upon both the causes and consequences the societal changes which have resulted in a considerable shift in the ways in which young adults go about finding a spouse.

Tracking a period of change, from a long history of patriarchal families and arranged marriages, into an environment wherein individuals are relatively free to choose their intimate partners, Blair, Madison and Fang demonstrate and analyse how recent shifts in divorce, cohabitation, and pre-marital sex have altered young adults' perceptions of marriage. Delving into demographic factors, such as the skewed sex ratio among young adults which have resulted in an overabundance of young males, cultural factors, such as increasingly individualistic forms of dating, and social and economic change which has resulted an increasingly materialistic middle-class, this book highlights that while traditional influence of parents in the selection of partners for their children has been overtaken, mate selection choices are not entirely made by the individuals themselves.

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