Grandparenting in China: Linked lives and consequences from a life course perspective

Jing Zhang

Grandparenting in China: Linked lives and consequences from a life course perspective

Jing Zhang

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Abstract

With this dissertation, we have provided insights into a better understanding of grandparenthood in China and how grandparenting relates to various outcomes of family members. This study has shown that older people as grandparents are assets for families, contributing to human resources and capital. This is one of the first studies to comprehensively address how grandparental roles can be understood in a transition society like China, facing rapid population ageing, fertility decline, and increasingly valuing the successes of offspring.

Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Erasmus University Rotterdam
Supervisors/Advisors	Dykstra, Pearl, Supervisor Emery, Tom, Co-supervisor
Award date	22 Jun 2023
Place of Publication	Rotterdam
Publication status	Published - 22 Jun 2023

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Financial support for this thesis comes from the ESRC/NNFSC/NWO
funded
research project Life Course and Family Dynamics in a Comparative Perspective
(ES/L159527/1; National Natural Science Foundation of China, ID: 71461137001;
NWO: 467 14 152) and the European Research Council funded project Families in
Context under the grant agreement no. 324211
Jing Zhang is supported by a C
hina Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Fellowship for
her PhD study at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The scholarship
file number is 201606190207.

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Grandparenting in China: Linked lives and consequences from a life course perspective

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