Little Love for Plans to Simplify China’s Marriage Maze Metizen Comments:"The new policy is too arbitrary.Authorities should focus on solving the underlying economic and social problems that have caused the shar...Little Love for Plans to Simplify China’s Marriage Maze Metizen Comments:"The new policy is too arbitrary.Authorities should focus on solving the underlying economic and social problems that have caused the sharp decline in the marriage rate instead of simply lowering the threshold for marriage registration.These actions are palliative measures with no lasting effect."展开更多
Recent drastic changes in marriage and fertility behaviour have a considerable impact on China’s annual number of births.Population momentum and changing fertility policy largely determine the changing number of birt...Recent drastic changes in marriage and fertility behaviour have a considerable impact on China’s annual number of births.Population momentum and changing fertility policy largely determine the changing number of births in China over the past two decades.While the annual number of births have been steadily fluctuat-ing around 16-18 million,contrary trends in the number of the first births and the second births have been observed.The two-child policy produced marked effects on the rising number of the second births,which is however to a large extent offset by the declining number of the first births resulting from rapidly postponing age at first marriage.A decomposition analysis demonstrates that all demographic factors are depressing birth numbers,including the size of reproductive-age women and its age structure,proportion married and marital fertility in the very recent years.China’s seventh population census conducted in 2020 suggests a more rapid decline in birth numbers,marking the start of a lowest-low fertility in Chinese history.展开更多
The policy of keeping on good terms with rulers of minority nationalities in the border areas by marriage started from Han Dynasty. It was diplomatically an expedient measure in feudal dynasties, i.e. to make minor sa...The policy of keeping on good terms with rulers of minority nationalities in the border areas by marriage started from Han Dynasty. It was diplomatically an expedient measure in feudal dynasties, i.e. to make minor sacrifices to safeguard major interests when facing powerful enemies. The peaceful time gained in such a way was used to recuperate and build up energy and develop economy. In Tang Dynasty, the policy was expanded to any pacification purpose. According to the statistics, the Tang rulers had applied its special marriage policy for 28 times respectively to such ethnic groups as Tu Jue, Tu Gu Hun, the Tibetan Regime then, Xi, Khitan, Ning Yuan Kingdom, Hui He and Nan Zhao Kingdom. The practice contributed greatly to the stability and prosperity of Tang Dynasty.展开更多
文摘Little Love for Plans to Simplify China’s Marriage Maze Metizen Comments:"The new policy is too arbitrary.Authorities should focus on solving the underlying economic and social problems that have caused the sharp decline in the marriage rate instead of simply lowering the threshold for marriage registration.These actions are palliative measures with no lasting effect."
基金support by the Research Fund of Renmin University of China(Grant No.20XNL025).
文摘Recent drastic changes in marriage and fertility behaviour have a considerable impact on China’s annual number of births.Population momentum and changing fertility policy largely determine the changing number of births in China over the past two decades.While the annual number of births have been steadily fluctuat-ing around 16-18 million,contrary trends in the number of the first births and the second births have been observed.The two-child policy produced marked effects on the rising number of the second births,which is however to a large extent offset by the declining number of the first births resulting from rapidly postponing age at first marriage.A decomposition analysis demonstrates that all demographic factors are depressing birth numbers,including the size of reproductive-age women and its age structure,proportion married and marital fertility in the very recent years.China’s seventh population census conducted in 2020 suggests a more rapid decline in birth numbers,marking the start of a lowest-low fertility in Chinese history.
文摘The policy of keeping on good terms with rulers of minority nationalities in the border areas by marriage started from Han Dynasty. It was diplomatically an expedient measure in feudal dynasties, i.e. to make minor sacrifices to safeguard major interests when facing powerful enemies. The peaceful time gained in such a way was used to recuperate and build up energy and develop economy. In Tang Dynasty, the policy was expanded to any pacification purpose. According to the statistics, the Tang rulers had applied its special marriage policy for 28 times respectively to such ethnic groups as Tu Jue, Tu Gu Hun, the Tibetan Regime then, Xi, Khitan, Ning Yuan Kingdom, Hui He and Nan Zhao Kingdom. The practice contributed greatly to the stability and prosperity of Tang Dynasty.
