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Chinese one-child families in the age of migration: middle-class transnational mobility, ageing parents, and the changing role of filial piety

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The Journal of Chinese Sociology, Volume: 3, Issue: 1

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One-child transnational families are the product of the “one-child” policy, access to foreign travel, and the rise of a middle class that could afford overseas education for the only child. One result was the possibility of the only child, following its Western-based education, settling (semi)perman...

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ISSN: 2198-2635
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