{"title":"Foreign Domestic Helpers Hiring and Women’s Labor Supply in Hong Kong","authors":"Guangye He, Xiaogang Wu","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1630814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1630814","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Based on the data from Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD), this article investigates the effect of hiring foreign domestic helpers (FDH) on married women’s labor supply in Hong Kong. The results show, hiring FDHs promotes female’s labor force participation in Hong Kong, increases the amount of time they spend on paid work, and reduces their share of housework. Further analysis suggests that the effects of hiring helpers vary substantially across different socioeconomic groups. The positive effect of hiring FDHs on work hours is the greatest among those who hold an upper-secondary education, live in subsidized housing, and are married to men who earn a relatively low income. These women work longer hours to meet their family’s ends. For married women of higher socioeconomic status, the effect of FDHs hiring on work time is insignificant, suggesting that their relief from housework contributes not to their market work but rather to the support for a more leisurely lifestyle.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"397 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1630814","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42942596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinstating the Family: Intergenerational Influence on Assortative Mating in China","authors":"Felicia F. Tian, D. Davis","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1632701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1632701","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Prevailing research on assortative mating marginalizes the agency of third parties. Yet, in China, an intergenerational perspective may be useful because family members have participated in spouse selection to maintain homogamy. Using Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey, we found 20 percent of young adults found their spouse through family introduction. Education reduces, while family resources increase, young people’s reliance on family. For women but not men, reliance on family increased homogamy and somewhat reduced female hypogamy, particularly on ascribed characteristics. These findings suggest that family roles should be carefully analyzed to capture the search context in which marriages are created.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"337 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1632701","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49105012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japanese Attitudes Toward China and the United States: A Sociological Analysis","authors":"Shun Gong, Kikuko Nagayoshi","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1611374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1611374","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As China and the United States have a great impact on Japan, Japanese attitudes toward China and the United States have been the focus of debate. This study uses nationally representative longitudinal data from Japan to investigate how the economic and political threats are relevant to Japanese attitudes toward China and the United States. Empirical analyses find that: first, socioeconomic status (SES) is significantly associated with individuals’ attitudes toward the United States but not China. Second, individuals’ perceptions of Japan’s economic situation influence their attitudes toward China and the United States; that is, an optimistic assessment of Japan’s economy increases the Japanese people’s positive attitudes toward both China and the United States. Finally, the political threats have contrasting effects on Japanese attitudes toward China and the United States. Concerns over political threats increase Japan’s favorable attitudes toward the United States while deteriorating the positive attitudes toward China.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"251 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1611374","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44985953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between State and Market: Hukou, Nonstandard Employment, and Bad Jobs in Urban China","authors":"Kevin Stainback, Zhenyu Tang","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1616541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1616541","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract China’s household registration system (hukou) has long divided urban and rural populations—economically, socially, and spatially. Economic reforms since the late-1970s, however, have led to increased opportunities for rural migrants in urban labor markets. But how are rural migrants being incorporated into urban employment? Drawing on Tilly’s relational inequality perspective, this article examines the relationship between hukou and job quality—paying particular attention to (1) nonstandard employment and (2) ownership sector. Compared to urban hukou workers, we find that rural hukou holders are more likely to be sorted into jobs with nonstandard employment relations—jobs with fewer benefits. Hence, a significant portion of the urban-rural gap in job quality is attributed to categorically linked sorting into nonstandard employment net of human capital. Further analyses reveal significant differences between sectors. These results highlight the durable and enduring nature of hukou as a significant basis of stratification in contemporary urban China.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"271 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1616541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42608779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Allure of Being Modern: Personal Quality as Status Symbol Among Migrant Families in Shanghai","authors":"X. Tian","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1596019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1596019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines how the powerful suzhi (personal quality) discourse affects the subjective understanding of Chinese migrant workers toward their situation in the city in order to elucidate the microlevel processes that the lower social class acculturate to the dominant cultural capital. Many migrants from the Chinese countryside have remained in Shanghai despite that in doing so, their children are prohibited from taking senior high school and college entrance examinations. In two waves of interviews with migrant parents and children over a 10-year period, parents have justified their decision to remain in the city, reasoning that their children adopt “modern” habits, behaviors and lifestyles, which render them “modernized,” and thus elevate their social status even without a higher education. Cultural discourses with strong connotations of authority and power provide the framework that the migrants use to improve their relative social status at the microlevel. This research foregrounds the consideration of relative social status in decision making and social behavior as a microprocess through which the lower social class subscribes to a cultural discourse that reduces them to a lower position.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"311 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1596019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47366358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing and Subjective Class Identification in Urban China","authors":"Wei Chen, Xiaogang Wu, Jia Miao","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1601012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1601012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Housing has become a major dimension of socioeconomic inequality in contemporary China. This study investigates the effects of homeownership and housing wealth on people’s subjective class identification in urban China. Using the data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2016, we estimate fixed-effects models and show that growth in housing wealth improves people’s perceived social status, and the improvement is greater in more economically developed areas with higher real estate prices and greater housing inequality. Owning a home enhances subjective social class only in eastern coastal regions but not in inland regions. These findings suggest that as homeownership expands and becomes universal in a society, the psychological benefits of homeownership may diminish, but the subjective impact of housing wealth would increase. The study contributes to the literature on the social consequences of housing in a transitional society that is experiencing rapid housing privatization and increased housing stratification.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"221 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1601012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47990774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Meritocracy? Academic Ability and China’s Urban-Rural Gap in Access to Higher Education","authors":"Angran Li","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1579052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1579052","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: With the rapid expansion of higher education, educational meritocracy has received both applause and skepticism among scholars, citizens, and policy-makers. Focusing on China’s urban-rural gap in college enrollment during the expansion, this study examines the differential effects of academic ability on urban and rural adolescents’ college enrollment. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, the results show that the urban-rural gap in attending academic colleges is largest for adolescents who are at the middle ground of the distribution for academic ability, while the gap in vocational college enrollment is greatest for low-achieving adolescents. Compared to their urban counterparts, the positive effects of academic ability on academic college enrollment are stronger for high-achieving rural adolescents. It has little impact on the likelihood of college enrollment for low-achieving rural adolescents. The results suggest that the major source of China’s urban-rural gap in higher education is unequal access to vocational colleges. The findings provide important insights for understanding how structural, cultural, and policy factors perpetuate higher education inequality in China.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"115 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1579052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48794787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Media Use and Traditional Gender Role Beliefs on Tolerance of Homosexuality in China","authors":"K. Hu, Xinling Li","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1595567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1595567","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data collected in 2015, this study investigates the effects of traditional media use and Internet use on tolerance of homosexuality, and the extent to which traditional gender role beliefs can moderate these effects. The results show that, while Internet use had a positive effect on tolerance of homosexuality, exposure to traditional media was likely to inhibit such tolerance. Moreover, traditional gender role beliefs are found to be able to undermine the liberalizing effect of Internet use on tolerance of homosexuality. The implications of the findings for understanding attitudes toward homosexuality in China are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"147 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1595567","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47123997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Confucian Legalist State and Theory Building Based on Ideal-Type Set","authors":"Dingxin Zhao","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2018.1518711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2018.1518711","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this essay, I address two major concerns raised by the reviewers of my recent book The Confucian-Legalist State. The first is on the theory of social change that I have developed in my book, and the second is about my explanation of why an indigenous breakthrough to industrial capitalism was impossible in China, despite its highly commercialized economy. I address the first issue by explicating the nature and value of ideal-type-set based deduction in theory building, and the second one by clarifying three methodological issues involved in historical comparison. The essay is concluded with a key point of my book–history is developmental but not progressive.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"207 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2018.1518711","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41387816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education and Childrearing Decision-Making in East Asia","authors":"Shu Hu, W. J. Yeung","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1571903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1571903","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous research on household labor has focused more on its physical participation and less on the mental and managerial responsibility. In this paper, using data from the 2006 East Asia Social Survey and the 2012 International Social Survey Program, we evaluate how couples made childrearing decisions and the role of relative education in shaping such decisions in urban China, Taiwan, and Japan. We find a dominant “co-pilot” model of childrearing decision-making among the urban Chinese with both husbands and wives participating, a “separate sphere” model among the Japanese with least sole decision-making by the husband, and a mixed model among the Taiwanese. Regardless of gender, the better-educated parent in China and Taiwan is more likely to take sole charge of childrearing decision-making. This suggests that the human capital of parents may play an increasingly salient role in parenting behavior in contemporary East Asia in the sense that the better-educated parent has a greater responsibility for making childrearing decisions while the gender boundaries become more blurred over time.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"29 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1571903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41942397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}