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New
Aspects of Shanghai Mixed Marriages Emerge
The Demographic Institute of East China Normal
University and Shanghai Municipal Civil Affairs Administration
recently released a white paper on trans-national marriages
in Shanghai. Mixed nationality couples in the city now encompass
migrants from all continents, other than Antarctica.
Among foreign spouses Japanese account for 39.6
percent, followed by Americans, at 9.1 percent, while those
from Australia, Canada and Europe are 6.1, 3.9 and 5.7 percent
respectively.
Trans-national marriages in Shanghai have three
distinct features. A greater number of Shanghai men marry foreign
women; fewer wed purely to gain entrance to Western countries;
and members of the elite class and divorced women are most likely
marry out of their own nationality.
