Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China

Handbooks of Research on Contemporary China series

Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chair Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Lucy Xia Zhao, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.

‘This is a masterly work. The two editors, brilliant and experienced experts and scholars on Chinese society, have drawn together a superb team that includes some of the foremost international specialists in their respective fields. The number of relevant topics covered is truly breath-taking. The result is a brilliant, balanced, beautifully integrated, insightful, humane and readable specialist work, which is unsurpassed in its field, and likely to remain so for a long time. I recommend it very strongly indeed.’
– Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia

‘This comprehensive Handbook draws together reviews of the literature and historically and theoretically informed cutting edge research in what is sure to be the definitive text on marriage and family in China in the early twenty-first century. The editors have assembled a global dream team that addresses virtually every topic in the field, including sensitive issues such as globalization of marriage, family dynamics, intimacy, sexuality and transgender marriage. Family and marriage in Taiwan and Hong Kong are also addressed.’
– Thomas Gold, University of California, Berkeley, US