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[Institute for China Studies] Prominent Scholar Guest Lecture

Oct 11, 2022

The Institute for China Studies and the research organization BK21Four of the department of Anthropology holds a lecture on the topic <Why Chinese Only-Children Delay Having Children?> with professor Vanessa Fong from Amherst College.
We ask for your active participation.

Why Chinese Only-Children Delay Having Children?

Time and Date: 2022. 10. 11 (Tuesday) 18:00-19:30

Participation Link:  https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/97308710258

Inquiriesichina@snu.ac.kr

*The lecture will be given in English

Outline of the Lecture: 

Based on interviews, surveys, and participant observation conducted as part of a longitudinal study of Chinese singletons conducted between 1998 and 2022, this talk examines how the high parental investment, high educational attainment, high career ambitions, and egalitarian gender roles experienced by a cohort born under China’s one-child policy have led most members of this cohort to not have a child by age 28, despite policies that now allow them to have up to three children, and the widespread desire to have two children that most of them expressed during their twenties, and the fact that most of them were born to working-class parents who were under age 28 or younger when they had their first children. 

The Institute for China Studies, Seoul National University

Address: (08826) 1, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Building #101, Seoul National University Asia Center Room 501

E-mail: ichina@snu.ac.kr

Tel: 02-880-9192