Feminist Sinologies: An Introduction

Da, Nan Z.; Wang, Zheng

doi:10.1086/679610

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“…From "compressed temporality" (Da & Wang, 2015) to "mosaic temporality" (Ji, 2017), scholars have described the gender and family system in contemporary China as one of profound paradox (e.g., Da & Wang, 2015;Ji, 2017;Yeung & Hu, 2016). Specifically, Ji (2017) has elucidated how interwoven cultural and institutional forces of Confucian patriarchy, socialist traditions, and neoliberal capitalist development have engendered mismatched gender beliefs in the public vs. the private sphere.…”

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“…Historians of modern China have described China's modernization as characterized by "compressed temporality" (Da & Wang, 2015). That is, over the past century, with dramatic development occurring over a much shorter period of time, multiple visions of modernity are compressed into one another, creating tensions and ambiguity in all aspects of social life, including gender and family relations (Da & Wang, 2015, for similar articulations, see also Chang, 1999;Ji, 2017;Yeung & Hu 2016). On one hand, economic development has taken place intensely since China's 1978 market reform.…”

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Gendering the second demographic transition: gender asymmetry, gendered tension, and cohabitation in contemporary urban China

Zhou

2022

China popul. dev. stud.

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The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) framework highlights individuals’ ideational shift toward greater individualism in explaining the rise of non-marriage unions. Contemporary China has seen a substantial increase in premarital cohabitation. Drawing on 65 in-depth interviews with highly educated young urban Chinese women and men, this article examines the gendered ways in which young Chinese adults perceive and make decisions about premarital cohabitation, as they envision their ideal lives and what autonomy and self-realization mean to them. I demonstrate that while male respondents predominantly view cohabitation positively as a risk-reduction strategy for avoiding incompatible marriages, female respondents still consider cohabitation to be a risk-amplification arrangement in practice that increases the possibility of uncertain marriage prospect, unsafe sex, and reputational damages. Young women, but not men, often have to strategize—through carefully managing information disclosure—about persistent parental expectations that discourage women’s premarital cohabitation. As a result, while male respondents regard marriage to be neither the necessary precondition nor the end goal of cohabitation, female respondents, who otherwise emphasize autonomy and individualistic fulfillment, continue to desire a close linkage between cohabitation and marriage. Leveraging the unique strength of qualitative data in demographic research, this article articulates the gender asymmetry in how women and men perceive cohabitation’s risks, benefits, and link to marriage. I elucidate the gendered tension between privately-held ideals of individualism vis-à-vis enduring social norms of female marriageability, as women and men differentially navigate parental expectations surrounding cohabitation. In so doing, this article makes a theoretical contribution by bringing a careful treatment of gender into the SDT framework.

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Section: The Sdt Framework and China As A Theory-advancement Casementioning

confidence: 99%