ISBN:
9781138024250
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (261 p)
Series Statement:
ASAA Women in Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Love and Marriage in Globalizing China
DDC:
306.810951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese--foreign marriages have profound implications for China's cultural identity. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the different types of Chinese--foreign marriage, and divorce, and the changing scale and changing patterns of such marriages, and divorces, and examines how such marriages and divorces are portrayed in different kinds of media. It shows how those types of Chinese--foreign marriage where Chinese patriotism and Chinese values are preserved are depicted
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; 1 Introduction: Chinese-foreign marriage; What are 'Chinese-foreign marriages'?; Researching intercultural marriage; Researching Chinese-foreign marriage in the PRC media; Chapter outline; 2 Obstacles, statistics and regulations; Initial obstacles to Chinese-foreign marriage in the PRC; Statistics of Chinese-foreign marriage; Governing marriage in the reform era; Conclusion; 3 Newspaper coverage of Chinese-foreign marriage; Changing numerical trends
Description / Table of Contents:
Different countries of originHypergamy; 'Love' in the 2000s; Hypergamy revisited; Conclusion; 4 Newspaper coverage of Chinese-foreign divorce; Chinese-foreign divorce: a rising trend; Deception, adultery, bigamy and divorce; Domestic violence and divorce; Marriage introduction services and divorce; Conclusion; 5 Celebrity Chinese-foreign marriage; China's first celebrity Chinese-foreign marriage; Celebrity Chinese-foreign marriage in the 1990s; Celebrity Chinese-foreign marriage in the 2000s; Conclusion; 6 Celebrity Chinese-foreign divorce; High rates of divorce; Speculation and hearsay
Description / Table of Contents:
Amicable divorces and exemplary fatherhoodFemale autonomy and exemplary motherhood; Conclusion; 7 Documenting Chinese-foreign marriage; New documentary and Chinese-foreign marriage; Cross-Strait marriage; Cross-Strait marriage in the media; Rural Chinese and foreign nationals; Conclusion; 8 Television talk shows and Chinese-foreign marriage; Television talk shows in the PRC; Foreign Chinese; Foreign spouses as country bumpkins; Making marital conflict 'fun'; Conclusion; 9 Concluding comments; Defining and counting Chinese-foreign marriages; Media discussions of Chinese-foreign marriage
Description / Table of Contents:
Potential avenues for further researchAppendix 1: Sources of statistical information on marriages and divorces registered in the PRC; Appendix 2: Documentary films on Chinese-foreign marriage (57 episodes); Appendix 3: Television talk shows on Chinese-foreign marriage (20 episodes); Appendix 4: Children in celebrity Chinese-foreign marriages (examples); References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record