Marriage and Mobility under Rural Collectivism

Lavely, William

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“…Political and socioeconomic standing, although sometimes in conflict, were both considered important (Croll 1981). Marriage migration was one of the few ways that women could move out and up, and women's mate choice was profoundly influenced by the spatial hierarchy (Lavely 1991), a trend which intensified in the reform period (C. Fan and Huang 1998;C. Fan and Li 2002; L. Tan and Short 2004).…”

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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter¹

2004

J of Asian Stud

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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter¹

2004

J of Asian Stud

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“…In consequence, the fathers usually possess a certain power in terms of cultural capital. As Fan and Huang (1998, 230) have observed, although Chinese traditional cultural norms advocate that in-laws should have similar socio-economic positions 'men dang hu dui', husbands are widely expected to be superior to wives in terms of age, height, educational background, occupational prestige and socio-economic status (Lavely 1991;Shen 1996;Weeks 1989). Many men in contemporary China believe that 'a family cannot have two strong-willed members' and 'intelligent, well-educated women will not be ideal obedient wives' (Weeks 1989, 509).…”

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Cultural capital and gender differences in parental involvement in children's schooling and higher education choice in China

Sheng

2012

Gender and Education

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This article employs the concept of cultural capital to examine the ways in which social difference in terms of gender are played out in parental involvement in children's schooling and higher education choice. The intention has been to provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which Chinese mothers and fathers are involved in the process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 47 secondary school students and 50 parents in Beijing. This article reveals that the transmission of cultural capital is gendered. Mothers have a different and more direct relationship to the generation of cultural capital than fathers. This article reveals that patriarchal relationships are common among Chinese families, with fathers having a controlling role and mothers having a servicing one. I suggest that the traditional cultural norms, such as that based on Confucian patriarchy, have had influences on gender relationships in the transmission of cultural capital to children's educational achievement.

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“…Of the women who married into Tianfu, 73 percent reported that it is better than their natal hamlet, and only 6 percent said that their natal hamlet was better off. Location in the spatial hierarchy is thus a significant characteristic of a prospective husband, an example of "spatial hypergamy" (Lavely 1991). Given their favorable location, Tianfu women also compete to marry a man from their natal hamlet.…”

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