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Arranged cohabitation among Chinese Muslims.
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- Author(s): Mu Z;Mu Z; Lai Q; Lai Q; Xie Y; Xie Y; Xie Y
- Source:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2024 Feb 20; Vol. 121 (8), pp. e2317704121. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 12.- Publication Type:
Journal Article- Language:
English - Source:
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- Source: Publisher: National Academy of Sciences Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7505876 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1091-6490 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00278424 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Subsets: MEDLINE
- Publication Information: Original Publication: Washington, DC : National Academy of Sciences
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- Abstract: While modern family-related ideas and behaviors have become more widely accepted in contemporary China, Chinese Muslim minorities continue to hold on to traditional religious practices. Surprisingly, data from our survey conducted in Gansu province in China's northwestern borderlands reveal that Muslims of the Hui and Dongxiang ethnicities reported much higher rates of cohabitation experience than the secular majority Han. Based on follow-up qualitative interviews, we found the answer to lie in the interplay between the highly interventionist Chinese state and the robust cultural resilience of local Islamic communities. While the state maintains a high minimum legal age of marriage, the early marriage norm remains strong in Chinese Muslim communities, where religion constitutes an alternative and often more powerful source of legitimacy-at least in the private sphere of life. Using the 2000 census data, we further show that women in almost all 10 Muslim ethnic groups have higher percentages of underage births and premarital births than Han women, both nationally and in the northwest where most Chinese Muslims live. As the once-outlawed behavior of cohabitation became more socially acceptable during the reform and opening-up era, young Muslim Chinese often found themselves in "arranged cohabitations" as de facto marriages formed at younger-than-legal ages. In doing so, Chinese Muslim communities have reinvented the meaning of cohabitation. Rather than liberal intimate relationship based on individual autonomy, cohabitation has served as a coping strategy by which Islamic patriarchs circumvent the Chinese state's aggressive regulations aimed at "modernizing" the Muslim family.
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- Publication Date: Date Created: 20240212 Date Completed: 20240214 Latest Revision: 20240813
- Publication Date: 20240813
- Accession Number: PMC10895269
- Accession Number: 10.1073/pnas.2317704121
- Accession Number: 38346203
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