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The book investigates acomplex set of issuessurrounding marriages in China, including  the current state of marriages in China,  their key features, and trends, laws and legislations and their impact, understanding of what stable and happy marriage means what achieving it requires, the impact of mass communication on marriage quality, and social work related to families. Contributors look atboth theoretical treatment andempiricalstudies in these and other areas, and what the country has done so far towards introducing anti-domestic-violence legislations, searching for exemplary families,and domestic dispute resolution. The volume is an important contribution to both the research and practice in family-, gender- and marriage-related issues and challenges the country faces.