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Publication of Négociations et compromis
4 December 2024
Contemporary rural China is heavily impacted by the phenomenon of internal migration: rural people leave the countryside to work in the city. In this context, matrimonial practices are undergoing significant change.
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Through an ethnographic survey carried out in a village in northern China in the 2010s, the author examines the way in which the matrimonial practices of young villagers reflect the search for a balance between their individual will, notably emancipation, and the family and social expectations of their milieu of origin: to marry and perpetuate the family line. These changes rarely call into question the patrilineal kinship system. It is this readjustment of practices that enables the institution of marriage to be maintained in contemporary rural China.