Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intending to fill part of the gaps in the scholarship of remarriage, this article focuses on the often neglected question of remarriage probabilities and practices in contemporary rural China. The conclusions drawn by the existing literature show that female widowed/divorced were far less likely to remarry than their male counterparts, and the probabilities of remarriage declined rapidly with age, particularly for women. Both quantitative dataset and qualitative inquiries presented in this article, however, suggest that it is not the case for the contemporary rural Chinese population. In order to explain the discrepancies, this article refers to existing literature and adopts a comparative framework in which remarriage probabilities and practices across time (the past and the present) and regions (rural/urban; China/ non-Chinese societies) are examined, and the changing family dynamics both between and within gender groups and generations in relation to remarriage are explored. It advances, in contemporary inland rural China, despite the support for marriage freedom from the state’s Marriage Law, the decision of remarriage is a complexity which depends on the economic, social, and cultural imperatives, and is affected by the intersectional effects of the gender and life course of the widowed/divorced. Taking the intersectional effects into account, this article encompasses the individuals’ social dimension in relation to remarriage choice, that is, family structure after marriage, household size, the age/ sex composition/number of children and economic situation, and it links the factors at an individual level with those at a social/structural level, particularly the socialist revolution, economic reform and the enforcement of family planning policy in China. By using the comparative framework and the joint methods of quantitative dataset and qualitative inquiry, this article contributes to better our understanding of remarriage in contemporary rural China, the mechanism behind the choice and the changing power relations both between and within gender groups and generations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".