Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. Figures and Tables ix
5. Contributors xi
6. 1 Deinstitutionalizing Marriage and Sexuality 1
7. PART I. MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
8. 2 On the Limits of Personal Autonomy: PRC Law and the Institution of Marriage 41
9. 3 Love, Sex, and Commitment: Delinking Premarital Intimacy from Marriage in Urban China 62
10. 4 (Re)emergence of Late Marriage in Shanghai: From Collective Synchronization to Individual Choice 97
11. 5 “When Are You Going to Get Married?” Parental Matchmaking and Middle-Class Women in Contemporary Urban China 118
12. PART II. MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY IN HONG KONG
13. 6 Continuities and Changes: Five Decades of Marital Experiences in Hong Kong 147
14. 7 An Embarrassment of Riches: Good Men Behaving Badly in Hong Kong 165
15. 8 Marriage Rights for Transgender People in Hong Kong: Reading the W Case 189
16. PART III. MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY IN TAIWAN
17. 9 The Alternative Futures of Marriage: A Sociolegal Analysis of Family Law Reform in Taiwan 219
18. 10 Change and Continuity in the Experience of Marriage in Taiwan 239
19. 11 Staying in Marriage across the Taiwan Strait: Gender, Migration, and Transnational Family 262
20. 12 Marital Borders: Gender, Population, and Sovereignty across the Taiwan Strait 285
21. Index 313