Zhang Ageing in Contemporary China

Urbanisation, Social Stratification and Later-Life Inequalities
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7888-4
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Ageing in a Global Context

How does rapid urbanisation reshape the experience of ageing, and who is left behind?

This book provides one of the first systematic sociological analyses of stratified ageing and later-life inequality in contemporary China since the 1940s. Adopting an intersectional life-course perspective and combining longitudinal surveys with ethnographic fieldwork, it explores how demographic transition, urbanisation and digital transformation reshape wellbeing, intergenerational relations and later-life experiences.

The book shows how institutional inequalities accumulate across the life course, producing divergent ageing trajectories and enduring inequalities. With clear policy relevance, it offers insights into one of the most significant demographic shifts of our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Nan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Ageing, Urbanisation and Social Exclusion in Contemporary China

2. Unequal Ageing in Urbanising China: An Intersectional Life Course Framework

3. Urban–Rural Health Inequalities in Later Life in China: Decades of Urbanisation

4. Migration over the Life Course and Later Life Depression in Contemporary China

5. Urbanisation, Gender, and Subjective Well-Being in Later Life

6. Ageing, Migration and Grandparenting in Post-one Child Policy China

7. Ageing and Digital Technologies in Migrant Families in China

8. Environmental Impact of Urbanisation and Unequal Ageing in China

9. Population Ageing and Urbanisation in China: Where to Go from Here?

Über Autor(innen)

Zhang, Nan
Nan Zhang is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Medical Sociology and Social Gerontology in the Department of Social Statistics at The University of Manchester.