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Ageing in Contemporary China

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How does rapid urbanisation reshape the experience of ageing, and who is left behind? This book provides one of the first systematic sociological analyses of stratified ageing and later-life inequ...
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  • 23 March 2027
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How does rapid urbanisation reshape the experience of ageing, and who is left behind?

This book provides one of the first systematic sociological analyses of stratified ageing and later-life inequality in contemporary China since the 1940s. Adopting an intersectional life-course perspective and combining longitudinal surveys with ethnographic fieldwork, it explores how demographic transition, urbanisation and digital transformation reshape wellbeing, intergenerational relations and later-life experiences.

The book shows how institutional inequalities accumulate across the life course, producing divergent ageing trajectories and enduring inequalities. With clear policy relevance, it offers insights into one of the most significant demographic shifts of our time.

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Price: $127.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Ageing in a Global Context
Publication Date: 23 March 2027
ISBN: 9781447378877
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Age groups: the elderly / old age, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Immigration & Emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Migration, immigration and emigration
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Nan Zhang is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Medical Sociology and Social Gerontology in the Department of Social Statistics at The University of Manchester.

Part I: Ageing, Mobility, and Social Transformation

1. Ageing, Urbanisation, and Inequality in Contemporary China

2. Demographic Transformation, Migration, and Welfare Restructuring

Part II: Theorising Stratified Ageing

3. Stratified Ageing: An Intersectional Life-Course Framework

4. Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Inequalities in Later Life

Part III: Migration, Gender, and Well-Being

5. Gender, Urbanisation, and Subjective Well-Being in Later Life

6. Migration Trajectories and Later-Life Well-Being Across the Life Course

Part IV: Migration, Family Change, and Digital Ageing

7. Ageing, Migration, and Intergenerational Ambivalence

8. Digitalisation, Migration, and Ageing: Transforming Family Life and Social Participation

Part V: Stratified Ageing and Future Pathways

9. Reimagining Stratified Ageing in Contemporary China: Challenges and Pathways Forward