Partnering in East Asia

Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chen-Hao Hsu

Chapter Chapter 27 in Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course, 2025, pp 332-346 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter offers an overview of partnership patterns in five East Asian societies, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. It starts with documenting the economic, social and legal changes that took place in the region over the past few decades and discussing how they shape contextual and individual factors to influence different partnering behaviors. While long-term stable cohabiting unions and non-marital births remain relatively rare in this region, partnership patterns have nevertheless become more diversified. The legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan has triggered more public discussions about LGBTQ relationships in neighboring countries; the rise of online dating applications has changed the partnership matching process among the youth and the divorced; and the rise of international and internal marriage migration in this region poses new challenges of social integration. A review of recent developments in these unique trends of marriage, divorce, remarriage, cohabitation, and same-sex marriage/union will be offered. The chapter will end with a discussion of future partnering patterns in East Asia and their related social and policy implications.

Keywords: Marriage; International marriage migration; Cohabitation; Online dating; Same-sex unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923376
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