The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Poston, Jr., Dudley L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Yang, Wen Shan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Farris, Demetrea Nicole (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 35
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Demography.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Social Sciences.; Family.; Sociology, general.

This book focuses on families and their changes in Taiwan and China. Traditional notions of what constitutes a family have been changing in China, Taiwan and other Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide interesting methodological and substantive contributions to the discourse on family a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Demetrea Nicole Farris and Dudley L. Poston, Jr., “Family Issues in Taiwan and China”
• I. The Family in Taiwan and China: 1. Chien-Liang Chen, “Models of Resource Distribution in the Family in Taiwan”
• 2. Kuang-Hui Yeh, “Filial Piety and the Autonomous Development of Adolescents in the Taiwanese Family”
• 3. Te-mu Wang and Hua-chin Ho, “Family Poverty in Taiwan”
• 4. Edward Jow-Ching Tu and Jianping Wang, “Patterns and Changes in Household Structure in Hong Kong”
• II. Issues of Marriage, the Family and Fertility in Taiwan and China: 5. Wen Shan Yang and Pei Chieh Yen. “Single and Happier?: A Comparative Study of Marital Status, Socioeconomic Security and Wellbeing of Women in Hong Kong and Taiwan”
• 6. Ginny Garcia, Heather Terrell Kincannon, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Carol S. Walther, “Patterns of Sexual Activity in China and the United States”
• 7. Wen Shan Yang and Ying-ying Tiffany Liu, “Gender Imbalances and the Twisted Marriage Market in Taiwan”
• 8. Hsiang-Ming Kung, “Like Mother, Like Daughter: The Effect of Mothers’ Attitudes on the Way Their Daughters Interact with Their Mothers-in-law”
• 9. Li Zhang, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Chiung-Fang Chang, “Male and Female Fertility in Taiwan”
• III. Children and the Family in East Asia and in Western Countries: Comparative Studies: 10. Feinian Chen, “The Dynamics of Grandparents Caring for Children in China”
• 11. Cathy Ruey-Ling Chu, “Family Values and Parent-Child Interaction in Taiwan”
• 12. Cherng-Tay Hsueh, “Diversity among Families in Contemporary Taiwan: Old Trunks or New Twigs?”
• 13. Lang-Wen Huang, “Adolescent Development in Taiwan”
• 14. Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Hosik Min, and Sherry L. McKibben, “Son Preference and Fertility in China, South Korea, and the United States”
• 15. Alfred Ko-wei Hu, “Determinants of Intergenerational Support in the Newly Industrialized Societies: The Case of Taiwan”
• IV. The Family and the Future in Taiwan: 16. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Li Zhang, “Taiwan’s Demographic Destiny: Marriage Market and Aged Dependency Implications for the 21st Century”
• About the Authors
• Name Index
• Subject Index.  .