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Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China

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Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China

Chigusa Yamaura, "Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China"
English | ISBN: 1501750143 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB

How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking―individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meeting―come to see one another as potential marriage partners? Motivated by this question, Chigusa Yamaura traces the practices of Sino-Japanese matchmaking from transnational marriage agencies in Tokyo to branch offices and language schools in China, from initial meetings to marriage, the visa application processes, and beyond to marital life in Japan.
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