Asian Education and Development Studies: Volume 6 Issue 2

Introduction: Population change in East Asia: demographic causes, socioeconomic consequences and policy implications for mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Edward Jow-Ching Tu

Ultra-low fertility, gender equity and policy considerations

Edward Jow-Ching Tu, Yuruo Yan, Jiaying Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the issue and the reasons why fertility patterns in many industrialized and post-industrialized societies decline so rapidly, primarily in…

Significance of family-friendly measures on fertility in Hong Kong

Gigi Lam, Yuruo Yan, Edward Jow-Ching Tu

Hong Kong entered an ultra-low fertility regime nearly two decades ago (Census and Statistics Department, 2013). The causes of ultra-low fertility in Hong Kong are the same as…

Acculturation and psychological well-being of immigrant brides in Taiwan

Chun-Hao Li, Shu-Yao Hsu

Since the 1990s, an imbalanced marriage market has ushered in a great number of female immigrants, mainly from China and certain ASEAN countries, into Taiwan. These immigrant…

A unique pattern of one-child family migration in China: The effects of personal features, family endowment and institutional elements

Yingtan Mu, Xin Yuan

At the end of the 1970s, the Chinese government enacted the one-child policy; now the one-child successively enters into the labor market and reaches the age for marriage and…

Health and health care disparities among women in mainland China

Xiaofei Wang, Jiehua Lu

Women’s health is considered a big public health issue, impacting personal well-being, family reproduction, and society’s development. Since the foundation of the People’s…

Patterns of living arrangements of the elderly in mainland China: Changes, consequences and policy implications

Jiehua Lu, Yun Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes and consequences of the patterns of Chinese elderly population’s living arrangements. It contains information that can be…

Living arrangements, coresidence preference, and mortality risk among older Taiwanese

Wen-Shan Yang, Yao-Chi Shih, Yang-Tzu Li

Although coresidence with children when one becomes old is an ideal in Chinese society, the drastic socio-economic development in Taiwan has brought some fundamental changes to…

University Rankings: Implications for Higher Education in Taiwan

Ming-Lun Chung

Les Indes et l'Europe. Histoires connectées XVe-XXIe siècles (India, Southeast Asia and Europe. A New History from 15th Century to 21st Century). Maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, notes and index

Jean A. Berlie