Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Center for Geriatrics and Welfare Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. Her publication includes a coedited volume, Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021).

“The book is a fascinating study of changes in the institution of marriage over time in Kinmen. It demonstrates how marriage can be studied as both driving social changes and impacted by social changes.” • Lynne Yukie Nakano, The Chinese University of Hong Kong“It is a significant contribution to the study of kinship, family, and social change in Taiwan and will be read with great interest not only by Taiwan / China scholars but also by anthropologists and scholars in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.” • Gonçalo D. Santos, University of Coimbra

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Migrant Economy and Marriage in the Republican EraChapter 2. Militarization and Marriage in the Cold War ContextChapter 3. Changing Intergenerational Transmission amidst Political and Economic LiberalizationChapter 4. Trials of MarryingChapter 5. Cross-Border Marriage on the BorderlandChapter 6. The Work of Marriage: An In-Married Woman’s PerspectiveConclusionReferencesIndex

Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Center for Geriatrics and Welfare Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. Her publication includes a coedited volume, Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021).

“The book is a fascinating study of changes in the institution of marriage over time in Kinmen. It demonstrates how marriage can be studied as both driving social changes and impacted by social changes.” • Lynne Yukie Nakano, The Chinese University of Hong Kong“It is a significant contribution to the study of kinship, family, and social change in Taiwan and will be read with great interest not only by Taiwan / China scholars but also by anthropologists and scholars in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.” • Gonçalo D. Santos, University of Coimbra

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Migrant Economy and Marriage in the Republican EraChapter 2. Militarization and Marriage in the Cold War ContextChapter 3. Changing Intergenerational Transmission amidst Political and Economic LiberalizationChapter 4. Trials of MarryingChapter 5. Cross-Border Marriage on the BorderlandChapter 6. The Work of Marriage: An In-Married Woman’s PerspectiveConclusionReferencesIndex

Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Center for Geriatrics and Welfare Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. Her publication includes a coedited volume, Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021).

“The book is a fascinating study of changes in the institution of marriage over time in Kinmen. It demonstrates how marriage can be studied as both driving social changes and impacted by social changes.” • Lynne Yukie Nakano, The Chinese University of Hong Kong“It is a significant contribution to the study of kinship, family, and social change in Taiwan and will be read with great interest not only by Taiwan / China scholars but also by anthropologists and scholars in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.” • Gonçalo D. Santos, University of Coimbra

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Migrant Economy and Marriage in the Republican EraChapter 2. Militarization and Marriage in the Cold War ContextChapter 3. Changing Intergenerational Transmission amidst Political and Economic LiberalizationChapter 4. Trials of MarryingChapter 5. Cross-Border Marriage on the BorderlandChapter 6. The Work of Marriage: An In-Married Woman’s PerspectiveConclusionReferencesIndex