Divorce Chinese Style

Ma, Li; Turunen, Jani; Rizzi, Ester Lucia

doi:10.1111/jomf.12484

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“…Lastly, the mass expansion of (higher) education since the 1990s has contributed to detraditionalizing public attitudes towards divorce and remarriage (Hu 2016a;Huang 2012). Thus, in post-reform China, educated people, particularly educated women, are more likely to divorce and remarry (Ma, Turunen, and Rizzi 2018;Wang and Zhou 2010).…”

Section: Background and Theoretical Considerations 21 Remarriage In mentioning

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“…It is widely believed that patterns of assortative mating are conditional on the extent to which (re)marriage is institutionalized and stigmatized (Cherlin 2004;Kalmijn 1998;Qian and Lichter 2018;Qian and Qian 2017;Schwartz 2013). Compared to Western societies, in China the increase in remarriage is recent and remarriage tends to be strongly stigmatized (Hu and To 2018;Ma, Turunen, and Rizzi 2018). Thus, we cannot readily assume that assortative mating in remarriage will operate similarly in China and in Western contexts.…”

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Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order

Hu¹,

Qian²

2019

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BACKGROUNDFamily change in China is characterized by increasing divorce rates and a growing number of remarriages, like in many Western countries. Assortative mating is a crucial part of the institution of (re)marriage and plays a key role in the (re)production of socioeconomic inequality. However, no research has examined assortative mating in remarriage in China, despite the recent emergence of studies on this topic in Western contexts. METHODOur analysis drew on pooled, nationally representative data from seven waves of the Chinese General Social Survey and China Family Panel Studies between 2010 and 2015 (N = 49,530 individuals). We used logistic regression models to examine educational and age assortative mating patterns of people in first and higher-order marriages. RESULTSFor both men and women, educational homogamy was less likely to occur in remarriages than in first marriages. Holding age at marriage constant, compared with those married to a similarly-aged spouse, men and women married to a spouse who was older than themselves were more likely to be in a remarriage as opposed to a first marriage. CONCLUSIONOur findings suggest that social norms that encourage status homogamy in first marriages are less salient in configuring assortative mating patterns in remarriages.Thus, remarriage appears to be incompletely institutionalized in China. . Both authors contributed equally to the work and their names are listed alphabetically. http://www.demographic-research.org CONTRIBUTION This is the first study that has compared assortative mating patterns between firstmarried and remarried people in China. This study highlights the importance of marriage order -as an advantage for the never married and a disadvantage for the previously married -in shaping marital mobility in China.

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Section: Background and Theoretical Considerations 21 Remarriage In mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order

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Qian²

2019

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“…Empirical research based on individual-level data shows that divorce was less common in China during the 1960s and the 1970s than in later decades (Ma, Turunen, and Rizzi 2018;Zeng et al 2002). The divorce trend increased noticeably during the 1980s, was elevated during the 1990s, and then shifted to a plateau during the 2000s (Ma, Turunen, and Rizzi 2018). Urbanites have been at the forefront of divorce over time.…”

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“…Urbanites have been at the forefront of divorce over time. In the 2000s when the trend plateaued for urbanites, the rising trend for rural residents continued, and the rural-urban gap in divorce risk narrowed (Ma, Turunen, and Rizzi 2018).…”

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Childlessness, sex composition of children, and divorce risks in China

Ma¹,

Rizzi²,

Turunen³

2019

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The value of children in China 4 Children and divorce in China 4.1 Divorce trend: Rural-urban differences 4.2 Children and divorce 4.3 Hypotheses 5 Data and methods 5.1 Methods 5.2 Variables 6 Results 6.1 Results from the main effects models 6.2 Childlessness and divorce over time 6.3 Sex composition of children and divorce over time 6.3.1 One-child parents 6.3.2 Two-child parents 7 Concluding discussion 8

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Migrate to divorce, to overcome divorce, or to avoid divorce? Divorce and migration nexus among Chinese (wo)men migrants in Paris

Lévy

2022

Population Space and Place

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Drawing on 10-year ethnographic fieldwork in France and China with Northern Chinese migrants in Paris, this paper analyses the imbrication of divorce and migration. Most women had divorced before leaving China, a smaller group divorced after arriving in France, many of them try to remarry abroad, while men respondents were almost all married in China. Relying on an intersectional approach and a transnational perspective, this paper unveils how married or divorcee status have influenced their choices to move or to remain in China, to stay abroad or return. More generally, it examines how the gendered social norms on family, marriage and divorce shape migrants' agency and how it may vary according to social class, gender, age, marital and migration status. The paper questions the transnational power of gender norms and observes how the scripts on family and divorce in China traverse state borders and continue to structure migrants' transnational experiences.

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Divorce Chinese Style

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order

Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order

Childlessness, sex composition of children, and divorce risks in China

Migrate to divorce, to overcome divorce, or to avoid divorce? Divorce and migration nexus among Chinese (wo)men migrants in Paris

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