The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Poston, Jr., Dudley L. (Editor), Yang, Wen Shan (Editor), Farris, Demetrea Nicole (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 35
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.  .