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ReadCMF

China Marriage & Family Reading Group

In January 2022,  Acton Jiashi Feng, Man Zhang, and I formed a reading group on marriage and family in China. Each session is a committee-led discussion about three peer-viewed journal articles or chapters of a book. Each season, we invite a scholar to discuss their work together. Sessions are hosted in Mandarin Chinese and meet on Friday nights (US Eastern Time) once every three weeks. 

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We always welcome grad students and young scholars across the globe to join us. If you are interested, please email iris.zhao@wisc.edu to join our email list.

Past Topics & Covered Literature 

11.17. 2023 Singlehood/Living Alone 

  • Choi, K. H., & Qian, Y. (2023). The rise of the childless single in South Korea. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 15(3), 526–541. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12507 

  • 李婷,郑叶昕.中国单身青年的规模、特征及其演进态势[J].中国青年研究,2023,No.331(09):5-15

  • Esteve, A., Reher, D.S., Treviño, R., Zueras, P. and Turu, A. (2020), Living Alone over the Life Course: Cross-National Variations on an Emerging Issue. Population and Development Review, 46: 169-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12311

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10.13. 2023 W/ Guest Speaker Dr. Haoming Song (宋浩铭)

  • Rauscher, Emily, and Haoming Song. 2022. “Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018.” Demography 59(3):1143–71. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9968420.

  • Song, Haoming. 2021. “The Unequal Consequences of Family Structures for Infant Health.” Social Science Research 100:102604. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102604.

  • Song, Haoming. Unequal Housework Time at the Intersection of Gender and Class, 2019-2021. working paper. 

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07. 21. 2023 W/ Guest Speaker Dr. Senhu Wang (王森浒)

  • Gong, S., & Wang, S. (2022). Family Policy Awareness and Marital Intentions: a National Survey Experimental Study. Demography, 59(1), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9624150

  • Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102668

  • Wang, S. Opportunity or Exploitation? A Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Flexible Working Arrangements and Gender Household Labor Inequality. working paper.  

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06. 30. 2023 ASA 2023 Family Section Paper Awards

  • Cross, Christina J., Paula Fomby, and Bethany Letiecq. 2022. “Interlinking Structural Racism and Heteropatriarchy: Rethinking Family Structure’s Effects on Child Outcomes in a Racialized, Unequal Society.” Journal of Family Theory & Review 14(3):482–501. doi: 10.1111/jftr.12458.

  • Thébaud, Sarah, and David S. Pedulla. 2022. “When Do Work-Family Policies Work? Unpacking the Effects of Stigma and Financial Costs for Men and Women.” Work and Occupations 49(2):229–63. doi: 10.1177/07308884211069914.

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06. 02. 2023 State-Family Relationships 

  • Fong, K. (2020). Getting eyes in the home: Child protective services investigations and state surveillance of family life. American Sociological Review, 85(4), 610-638. DOI: 10.1177/0003122420938460

  • Yan, Y. (2018). Neo-familism and the state in contemporary China. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 181-224. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45172908

  • Strijbosch, K. (2015). Single and the city: State influences on intimate relationships of young, single, well‐educated women in Singapore. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77(5), 1108-1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12221

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04. 28. 2023 Mosaic Familism 马赛克家庭主义 (w/ Guest Speaker Dr. Yingchun Ji 计迎春)

  • Ji, Yingchun, (2017). A mosaic temporality: New dynamics of the gender and marriage system in contemporary urban China. Temporalités. Revue de sciences sociales et humaines, (26). doi:10.4000/temporalites.3773

  • 计迎春.(2019).社会转型情境下的中国本土家庭理论构建初探.《妇女研究论丛》,第5期, 9-20.

  • 计迎春. (2020). 马赛克家庭主义：从女儿养老看中国家庭制度变迁.《二十一世纪》, 8月号, 77-97.

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03. 31. 2023 Parental Leave

  • Oh, Eunsil, and Eunmi Mun. 2022. “Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea.” Gender & Society 36(4):552–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221102151.

  • Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean, and Nanxun Li. 2023. “Paternity Leave, Family Dynamics, and Children’s Behavior in Singapore.” Journal of Marriage and Family 85(2):580–602. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12896.

  • 贾男, and 杨天池. 2019. “带薪产假与女性工资率——基于各省晚育产假奖励政策的实证研究.” 当代财经 0(12):3–16.  

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02. 24. 2023 Marriage Market

  • Lichter, D. T., Price, J. P., & Swigert, J. M. (2020). Mismatches in the Marriage Market. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(2), 796–809. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12603

  • Raymo, J. M., & Iwasawa, M. (2005). Marriage Market Mismatches in Japan: An Alternative View of the Relationship between Women’s Education and Marriage. American Sociological Review, 70(5), 801–822.

  • Guilmoto, C. Z. (2011). Skewed Sex Ratios at Birth and Future Marriage Squeeze in China and India, 2005–2100. Demography, 49(1), 77–100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0083-7

 

02. 03. 2023 Matchmaking 

  • Pettier, Jean-Baptiste. 2020. “Marrying the Perfect Child — Middle Class Norms and Intergenerational Arrangements in the Marriage Corners of Urban China.” Ethnography 1466138120960512. doi: 10.1177/1466138120960512.

  • Gui, Tianhan. 2017. “‘Devalued’ Daughters Versus ‘Appreciated’ Sons: Gender Inequality in China’s Parent-Organized Matchmaking Markets.” Journal of Family Issues 38(13):1923–48. doi: 10.1177/0192513X16680012.

  • 张骁健. 未完成的个体化:老年公园相亲实践中的主体性及其制约——基于北京市C公园相亲角的研究[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2021, 0(5): 25-36. https://www.fnyjlc.com/CN/Y2021/V0/I5/25 

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01. 06. 2023 Digital Queer Culture (w/ Guest Speaker Dr. Zhiqiu Benson Zhou)​

  • Zhou, Z. B. (2022). Besides Tongzhi: tactics for constructing and communicating sexual identities in China. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 32(2), 282-300.   https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12357

  • Zhou, Z. B. Forthcoming. More bottoms than tops? Mediated sexual roles and masculinity assemblage in Chinese gay communities. Sexualities. 

  • Zhou, Z. B. (2022). Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities? Media, Culture & Society, 44(5), 1034-1043. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221104712

 

12. 09. 2022 Abortion​

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11. 04. 2022 Remarriage

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10. 14. 2022 Family and Health

  • Chen, Dan, and Yuying Tong. 2021. “Marriage for the Sake of Parents? Adult Children’s Marriage Formation and Parental Psychological Distress in China.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83(4):1194–1211. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12749.

  • Mollborn, Stefanie, Bethany Rigles, and Jennifer A. Pace. 2021. “‘Healthier Than Just Healthy’: Families Transmitting Health as Cultural Capital.” Social Problems 68(3):574–90. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spaa015.

  • Torche, Florencia, and Tamkinat Rauf. 2021. “The Transition to Fatherhood and the Health of Men.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83(2):446–65. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12732. 

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09. 09. 2022 Cultural Approach to Family Research

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08. 18. 2022 ASA 2022 Family Section Student Paper Awards

  • Lee, Y. (2022). Is Leave for Fathers Pronatalist? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Impact of Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave on Couples’ Childbearing Intentions in South Korea. Population Research and Policy Review, 41(4), 1471–1500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09697-4

  • Delgado, V. (n.d.). Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families. Journal of Marriage and Family, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12840

  • Luhr, S. (2020). Signaling Parenthood: Managing the Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Premium in the U.S. Service Sector. Gender & Society, 34(2), 259–283. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243220905814

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​07. 21. 2022 Gender, Work, and Family (w/ Guest Speaker Dr. Eunsil Oh)

  • Working paper: Han, Sang Won and Eunsil Oh. "The Emergence of Superwoman Schema: A Relational Class Analysis Approach to Gender Norms in East Asia." 

  • Brinton, Mary C., and Eunsil Oh. 2019. “Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia.” American Journal of Sociology 125(1):105–40. doi: 10.1086/704369.

  • Oh, Eunsil. 2018. “Who Deserves to Work? How Women Develop Expectations of Child Care Support in Korea.” Gender & Society 32(4):493–515. doi: 10.1177/0891243218772495.

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07. 01. 2022 Marriage Dissolution/Divorce

  • Schwartz, C. R., & Mare, R. D. (2012). The proximate determinants of educational homogamy: The effects of first marriage, marital dissolution, remarriage, and educational upgrading. Demography, 49(2), 629-650.

  • Michelson, E. (2019). Decoupling: Marital violence and the struggle to divorce in China. American Journal of Sociology, 125(2), 325-381.

  • 郭云蔚. (2021). 受教育水平对离婚风险的影响及其时代变化. 人口研究, 45(6), 96-109.

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​06. 10. 2022 Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)

  • Wahlberg, A. (2018). Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China. University of California Press. 

  • Mukherjee, M. (2022). How Do You Want Your Eggs? The Medical Management of Kin-Making and Reproductive Inequalities in the United States and India. Social Problems, spac029. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac029

 

05. 13. 2022 Queer Family 

  • Wei, Wei, and Yunxiang Yan. 2021. “Rainbow Parents and the Familial Model of Tongzhi (LGBT) Activism in Contemporary China.” Chinese Sociological Review 53(5):451–72. doi: 10.1080/21620555.2021.1981129.

  • Mizielinska, Joanna. 2022. “The Limits of Choice: Queer Parents and Stateless Children in Their Search for Recognition in Poland.” Gender, Place & Culture 29(2):153–76. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1845616.

  • 丁依然；董晨宇. n.d. “制造夫妻:中国形婚群体的剧班协作、达标表演与身份失调.” 妇女研究论丛 0(6):87. http://www.fnyjlc.com/CN/abstract/abstract1036.shtml 

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04. 22. 2022 One-Child Policy (w/ Guest Speaker Dr. Yong Cai)

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04. 01. 2022 Parenting 

  • Ishizuka, P. (2019). Social Class, Gender, and Contemporary Parenting Standards in the United States: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment. Social Forces, 98(1), 31–58. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soy107

  • Hamilton, L., Roksa, J., & Nielsen, K. (2018). Providing a “Leg Up”: Parental Involvement and Opportunity Hoarding in College. Sociology of Education, 91(2), 111–131. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040718759557

  • 魏钦恭 & 张佳楠.(2021).来自兄弟的“让渡”和母亲的“馈赠”：校外教育投入中的女孩占优现象与家庭偏好逻辑. 社会(05),208-242. doi:10.15992/j.cnki.31-1123/c.2021.05.008.

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03. 11. 2022 Cohabitation 

  • Yang, Lijun. 2021. “The Role of Premarital Cohabitation in the Timing of First Birth in China.” Demographic Research 45:259–90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48640779 

  • Zhang, Yongjun. 2017. “Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution in Postreform China.” Journal of Marriage and Family 79(5):1435–49. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12419 .

  • 张亮. 2020. 从约会到同居:“他的”和“她的”同居决策比较——基于“90后”流动青年同居者的质性研究. 妇女研究论丛, 0(2): 34-44. (http://www.fnyjlc.com/CN/Y2020/V0/I2/34 ).

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02. 18. 2022 Gendered Division of Labor

  • Daminger, Allison. 2020. “De-Gendered Processes, Gendered Outcomes: How Egalitarian Couples Make Sense of Non-Egalitarian Household Practices.” American Sociological Review 85(5):806–29. doi: 10.1177/0003122420950208.

  • Qian, Yue, and Liana C. Sayer. 2016. “Division of Labor, Gender Ideology, and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia.” Journal of Marriage and Family 78(2):383–400. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12274.

  • 刘爱玉, 佟新, 付伟. 2015. 双薪家庭的家务性别分工：经济依赖、性别观念或情感表达[J]. 社会, 35(2): 109-136. (http://html.rhhz.net/society/html/2015-02-06.htm#bwest1987)

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01. 28. 2022 Union Formation

  • Cheng, Cheng, and Yang Zhou. 2021. “Wealth Accumulation by Hypogamy in Own and Parental Education in China.” Journal of Marriage and Family. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12805.

  • Armstrong, Elizabeth A., and Laura T. Hamilton. 2021. “Classed Pathways to Marriage: Hometown Ties, College Networks, and Life after Graduation.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83(4):1004–19. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12747.

  • 许琪、潘修明. 2021. “美貌与地位：中国人婚姻中的 匹配与交换.” 社会 41(6):203–35. https://www.society.shu.edu.cn/CN/abstract/abstract18560.shtml​

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