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Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India

Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics

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Editors:
  1. Sharada Srinivasan

    1. University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

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  2. Shuzhuo Li

    1. Institute for Population and Dev’t Studi, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

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  • Provides insight in the complex interaction between socio-economic, political, cultural and demographic factors and processes in China and India
  • Includes the latest primary data gathered using ethnographic methods
  • Based on micro-level empirical analyses

Part of the book series: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development (DTSD, volume 8)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Unifying Perspectives on Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India

    • Sharada Srinivasan, Shuzhuo Li
    Pages 1-23

  3. Being ‘Bare Branches’: Demographic Imbalance, Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity in North India

    • Paro Mishra
    Pages 25-46

  4. Household Division, Intra-generational Inequality and Marriage Prospects of Single Men in Multi-son Families in Rural China

    • Y. Li, W. D. Li, S. Z. Li
    Pages 47-66

  5. ‘Who Said I Was a Forced Bachelor?’ Single Men’s Voices and Strategies in Rural China

    • Kun Zhang, Danièle Bélanger
    Pages 67-83

  6. “Now It Is Difficult to Get Married”: Contextualising Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood in a North Indian Village

    • Shruti Chaudhry
    Pages 85-104

  7. The Sex Ratio Question and the Unfolding of a Moral Panic? Notions of Power, Choice and Self in Mate Selection Among Women and Men in Higher Education in China

    • Lisa Eklund
    Pages 105-125

  8. The Impact of Bride Shortage in South India: Vellala Gounders in Western Tamil Nadu

    • Judith Heyer
    Pages 127-144

  9. Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation Between Anthropologists and Demographers

    • C. Z. Guilmoto
    Pages 145-161

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 163-164
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About this book

​This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young ‘scarce’ women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discusses how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes with respect to economic development and globalization, gender, class, caste, families, migration and work. The chapters offer micro-level analyses contextualized in larger processes of change and push further existing understandings of the consequences of the demographic imbalance between men and women in China and/or India, particularly from a gender perspective. As such this book will be of interest to scholars and students in population studies, sociology, international development, gender studies, and Asian studies. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

    Sharada Srinivasan

  • Institute for Population and Dev’t Studi, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

    Shuzhuo Li

About the editors

Sharada Srinivasan is Associate Professor of International Development and the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Justice and Development in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research is located within the broad field of gender and development, focusing on gender-based discrimination and violence including young people’s experiences of them. She has worked on the issue of daughter elimination in India for about 15 years examining various facets of the phenomenon. She recently completed research on the consequences of daughter deficit in India, and on the prevalence of son preference and daughter aversion among Canadian Punjabis. Current areas of research include: The Social Sciences Humanities Research Canada (SSHRC)-funded four year research on young people's pathways into farming in Canada, China, India and Indonesia; and relative contributions of daughters and sons to their elderly parents' well-being in India.

Shuzhuo Li is currently Changjiang Professor of Population and Social Policy Studies, Director of the Institute for Population and Development Studies, Director of the Center for Population and Social Policy Research, Co-director of the Center for Aging and Health Research, the Chief Scientist of the Shaanxi Collaborative Innovation Center for Social Governance and Social Policy Research, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He is also a consulting professor at the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University. His research is focused on population and social development as well as public policies in contemporary transitional China, including population policies, aging and old-age support, rural-urban migrants and social integration, gender imbalance and sustainable social development, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. He has published numerous papers and books, and has won many honors and prizes, including the Fudan Management Award in 2011.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India

  • Book Subtitle: Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics

  • Editors: Sharada Srinivasan, Shuzhuo Li

  • Series Title: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63275-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63274-2Published: 09 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87515-6Published: 28 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63275-9Published: 31 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2543-0041

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0068

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 164

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Gender Studies

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