‘Stop nagging!’: why China’s generation Z is resisting marriage and babies
‘Stop nagging!’: why China’s generation Z is resisting marriage and babies
- January 24, 2022
- Wang Feng, sociology, MSN (The Guardian), Jan. 24, 2022
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A growing number of young people across east Asian societies are delaying their marriage as the region becomes more prosperous. Yet in urban China, this change has been especially swift, said Wang Feng, a sociologist professor at the University of California, Irvine. Comparing Chinese census data in 1990 and 2015, Wang said that the share of never-married Chinese women in their late 20s shot up by eight times in the span of 25 years.
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