Why China’s young people are not getting married
Why China’s young people are not getting married
- July 10, 2023
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, July 10, 2023
The share of women age 25 to 29 in urban China who have never been married rose to 40.6 percent in 2020 from 8.6 percent in 2000, according to an analysis by Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
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