“A New Job after Retirement”: Negotiating Grandparenting and Intergenerational Relationships in Urban China

Based on interviews with 120 adult only children and their parents in urban Tianjin, this article shows how grandparenting becomes a crucial site for the intergenerational negotiation around childcare, family obligations, and the unfulfilled aspirations for individualisation. While only child couple...

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Main Authors:	Lin, Qing, Mao, Jingyu
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Centre d'étude français sur la Chine contemporaine 2022
Subjects:	generation grandparentingk only child couples individualisation social change.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.13520 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/dvba https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/13520
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