SON PREFERENCE, MARRIAGE, AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER IN RURAL CHINA

Rural Chinese society has historically been dominated by a rigid malecentered patrilineal family system, and virilocal marriage remains overwhelmingly dominant. Under this system, parents call in a daughter-in-law for each of their sons, and all sons are entitled to stay home after marriage and core...

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Hauptverfasser:	Feldman, Marcus W, Li, Shuzhuo, Li, Nan, Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Jin, Xiaoyi
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adults Age Anthropology Asian studies Behavioral sciences Biometrics Biostatistics Children Chinese culture Clans Consumer economics Daughters East Asian studies Economic disciplines Economics Ethnography Ethnology Families Family members Family names Health care industry Health information Health sciences Home economics Housekeeping Human physical characteristics Human populations Human societies Language Lexicology Linguistics Names Older adults Parents Personal names Persons Population studies Proper names Sinology Social institutions Social sciences Social structures Sociology Sons
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Zusammenfassung:	Rural Chinese society has historically been dominated by a rigid malecentered patrilineal family system, and virilocal marriage remains overwhelmingly dominant. Under this system, parents call in a daughter-in-law for each of their sons, and all sons are entitled to stay home after marriage and coreside with their parents for a period of time until family division occurs or until both of their parents pass away. A son’s offspring use his father’s surname to continue the family lineage. Family property is usually inherited equally among all sons, and sons are obliged to take care of their parents in their old age.
DOI:	10.1515/9781400835492.232