{"title":"Women’s “Gender Capital” Experiences in Conjugal Housing Consumption: Understanding a New Pattern of Gender Inequality in China","authors":"Jing Zheng","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1680279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1680279","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article looks into the phenomenon that many women request men to provide a house for marriage in contemporary Chinese society. Going beyond explanations such as that the skewed sex ratio motivates men to engage in a Darwinian race and that some women have materialistic mating ideology, through a feminist engagement of Bourdieu’s concept of capital, I explicate how women wield their gender capital (in particular, the female capital) in the negotiation of conjugal housing consumption. I argue that women’s re-inscription of the “less-capable” female role should be differentiated from a simple return to tradition; it is more likely to be their protection-seeking strategy to counteract the increased uncertainty in relationships and the perceived gender inequality in marital life. The intergenerational dynamics in such negotiation process are also discussed. The study asserts that the gendered advantage enjoyed by some women in conjugal property negotiation has its root in the ongoing structural and gender constraints towards women. Such operation of gender capital therefore does not embody the liberation of women; it ironically traps both genders in a vicious circle of inequality.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"144 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1680279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45262615","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 Making of Sino Muslim Identity: Han Kitab in the Chinese Xidaotang","authors":"Qing Lai","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1636218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1636218","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The seemingly oxymoronic term Sino Muslim has a historical relevance of more than 1,300 years in China. Historically, migration and intermarriage gave rise to a Sinophone Muslim population, upon which a body of Islamic literature written in Chinese three hundred years ago, known as Han Kitab, had played an instrumental role in shaping a distinct Sino Muslim identity. Despite dramatic transformations of modern Chinese society, we found that the Han Kitab tradition continues to be alive today in China’s grassroots-level Muslim society. This article documents, for the first time with a probability sample, an extensive exposure to the Han Kitab literature among ordinary followers of a major Chinese Islamic sect, Xidaotang. More importantly, such exposure—in both private and public spheres of life—simultaneously contributes to the core Islamic religiosity as well as distinctive affinities to their fellow Chinese people regardless of religion (in comparison to foreign Muslims). These findings have profound implications given the increasing significance of China as an agent of globalization.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"167 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1636218","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46085134","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 Social Trust in Transitional China","authors":"Cary Wu, Zhilei Shi","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1665995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1665995","url":null,"abstract":"It is commonly held that education generates higher trust in others. In this article we consider how education might affect trust in transitional China where sociopolitical risks are widespread. We adopt an instrumental variable approach utilizing China’s two educational reforms––the Compulsory Education Law (1986) and the University Enrollment Expansion (1999)––as IVs. Analyzing data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies, we show a causal negative effect of education on trust in China. We also show education and risk awareness interact to shape trust: the negative effect of risk awareness on trust is stronger among the better educated. Taken together, the findings not only contribute to a recent debate on whether modernization has an erosive impact on social cohesion in China, but they also shed light on how education might affect trust differently across sociopolitical contexts.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"115 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1665995","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43987791","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":"Children’s gender and parental educational strategies in rural and urban China: the moderating roles of sibship size and family resources","authors":"Yixiao Liu, Quanbao Jiang, Feinian Chen","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2020.1717942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2020.1717942","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Despite the declining gender gap in education is consistently documented at the national level in China, little is known about the gendered pattern in education at the household level. This study aims at understanding the micro mechanism of current gendered pattern in educational attainment by examining parental educational strategies in Chinese families, where daughters are historically unprivileged, while children’s education is highly valued. Using the first-wave data from China Education Panel Survey (CEPS, academic year 2013–2014), we examined the gender differences in family educational strategies measured as parental college expectation and children’s private tutoring among junior high school students (aged 12–18, n = 15,733). The results show that daughters are more advantageous in parental educational strategies. Overall, daughters are more likely to be expected to attend college and enrolled in private tutoring, compared to sons. However, further analysis show that school performance explains daughters’ advantages in parental college expectation and that their advantages (in both parental college expectation and private tutoring) vary with sibship size and family resources.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"239 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2020.1717942","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45821194","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":"Social Tolerance of Homosexuality: A Quantitative Comparison of Mainland China, Singapore, and Taiwan","authors":"Min Zhou, Tianyang Hu","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1654368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654368","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study compares three Asian societies that are heavily influenced by Chinese culture and Confucianism, mainland China, Singapore, and Taiwan, in their social correlates of public tolerance of homosexuality. Due to different sociopolitical environments and public policies regarding homosexuality, individual-level factors such as education, income, age, and religiosity operate in distinct ways in the three societies. The more progressive environment in Taiwan allows more room for the manifestation of individual-level influences, compared to mainland China and Singapore. With respect to homosexuality, the tolerance-promoting effects of education and income and the tolerance-depressing effects of age and religiosity are significantly more pronounced in Taiwan than in mainland China and Singapore. Broader sociopolitical environments not only affect the overall level of tolerance of homosexuality in a society but also shape what individuals in the society are more tolerant.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"27 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41982783","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":"Parental Migration and Children's Psychological and Cognitive Development in China: Differences and Mediating Mechanisms.","authors":"Yao Lu, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Donald J Treiman","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2020.1776600","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21620555.2020.1776600","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Internal migration has resulted in a large number of left-behind children in China. Despite growing attention to this population, important gaps remain in our understanding of their cognitive development and the factors that mediate the impact of migration on children. The present study draws on a new nationally representative survey of Chinese children to study the psychological and cognitive development of left-behind children. Results show that rural children left behind by both parents (but not by one parent) are worse off in both psychological well-being and cognitive development than rural children living with both parents. The disadvantage of left-behind children is mediated by their caregivers' emotional well-being, parenting practices, and education. We also find a pronounced rural-urban difference in children's cognitive development.</p>","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 4","pages":"337-363"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7989854/pdf/nihms-1654960.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25517604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Children from Divorced Single-Parent Families Disadvantaged? New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies","authors":"Chunni Zhang","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1654366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654366","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, divorced single parenthood has become more prevalent in China. Nevertheless, divorced single parenthood and its impact on child outcomes have not been studied as much in China as in the West. Most studies in Western societies have reported that divorce and single parenthood are associated with disadvantaged child outcomes. This has been attributed in part to the prevalence of divorce among parents with low socioeconomic status and decreased child monitoring when one parent is absent. In China, however, there are several buffering mechanisms that may reduce the negative impact of divorce on children. Using data from four waves of the China Family Panel Studies, this study examines the effects of divorce and single parenthood on children’s academic performance and subjective wellbeing. The results show that children living with divorced single mothers performed as well as children from intact families, whereas children living with divorced single fathers and stepparents were disadvantaged in academic performance and subjective wellbeing. Frequent quarrels between parents in intact families also had a negative impact on child outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"114 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49101786","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":"Environmental Concern in China: A Multilevel Analysis","authors":"Feng Hao, Lijun Song","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1654367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654367","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Existing cross-national studies have identified that country-level economic and environmental factors can affect environmental concern at the individual-level. However, we know little in regard to how these contextual factors and their interaction with individual-level factors shape environmental concern within countries. Using China as an example, we examine three hypotheses: the affluence hypothesis, the degradation hypothesis, and the need contingency hypothesis. We measure environmental concern in three dimensions using twelve indicators. The latent mean comparison and multilevel structural equation modeling results show that provincial economic development and environmental degradation as well as their interactions with individual social-economic status have significant impacts on one’s environmental concern. Such impacts vary by the dimension of environmental concern. People from provinces with better economic conditions generally have higher environmental concern, especially for the perceived dangerousness of pollution and environmental behavior dimensions. The degradation hypothesis receives mixed support that depends on the measure of environmental degradation. Theoretical and methodological contributions as well as policy implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49407969","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":"Disparities in Subjective Wellbeing: Political Status, Urban-Rural Divide, and Cohort Dynamics in China","authors":"T. Zhang, Jing Hu, Xichao Zhang","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1654369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates disparities in subjective wellbeing in China by analyzing the Chinese General Social Survey (2003–2015). Our hierarchical age-period-cohort models reveal how Chinese Communist Party membership, the urban-rural divide, and cohort differences have jointly shaped levels of happiness. Interestingly, the significance of political status in shaping happiness varies profoundly across birth cohorts and locations of residence. In earlier cohorts (1910–1948), Communist Party members in rural areas have a considerable advantage over nonmembers, but this advantage gradually diminishes later, except the 1977–1985 cohort. The advantage of urban party membership keeps increasing up to the cohort born during 1957–1965 but declines rapidly after that. Findings suggest that in the planned economy, political status plays a central role in promoting subjective wellbeing especially in urban China; the transition to a market economy in post-Mao China has reduced political disparities among younger cohorts, mainly for urban residents.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"56 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1654369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49148590","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":"New Boundary Work of Rural Migrants: How It Opens Up New Potential Ways of Remaking Rural-Urban Symbolic Boundaries in China","authors":"M. Chew","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2019.1636639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2019.1636639","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There are powerful symbolic boundaries in urban China that exclude rural migrants. This study identifies and analyzes the new boundary work that aims at remaking these rural-urban boundaries. Based on data on previous cohorts of rural migrants in China and elsewhere, current studies argue that the predominant type of boundary work is personal assimilation. I challenge this finding by documenting how the most recent cohort of young rural migrants develop a broad variety of “normative inversion,” “reclassification,” and “universalistic blurring” types of boundary work. Although this study does not conclusively prove that the new boundary work has already successfully remade rural-urban boundaries, it illustrates that new potential paths to remaking them are opened. Data were mainly collected between 2014 and 2017 through participant observation in dance clubs in Beijing and interviews with fifty-seven dance club service workers.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"421 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2019.1636639","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46126068","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}