Chinese Marriage Traditions: Exploring Contemporary Changes
(2013) UTVK03 20131Sociology
- Abstract
- This thesis presents the transitions of Chinese people’s marriage concepts from before 1949 up to 1978 and explores the new marriage concepts now. The analysis part includes the high rates of divorce, left-over women and the bride price in China. I will mainly discuss why nowadays Chinese people have difficulties getting married, especially Chinese men. This analysis is based on two main theories; one is social exchange and another one is marriage squeeze. The analysis is based on the expensive bride price and how important it is for Chinese people especially for Chinese women.
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- author
- Qiu, Yueyi LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- UTVK03 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- bride price, social exchange, Chinese marriage, gender inequality
- language
- English
- id
- 3994741
- date added to LUP
- 2013-08-27 14:10:31
- date last changed
- 2013-08-27 14:10:31
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