Abstract
There is a diversity of patterns and mobilizing factors in marriage and family in Vietnam and some East Asian societies with some similarities in sociocultural context. This article provides an overview of evolving marriage in several countries in Southeast Asia (i.e. Vietnam) and East Asia (i.e. Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China). These societies share some similarities in socio-cultural ideology (i.e. Confucianism and familialism) while undergoing different stages of modernization and economic development. This article calculates the number and rates of marriage and divorce as well as transnational marriage and divorce by using national statistics from Vietnam Gender Equality Survey 2024, the Vietnam General Statistic Office, the Vietnam Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan, Statistics Korea, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, Statistics of Japan, and the National Bureau of Statistics of China in the period 2001–2023 in order to show contradictory persistence and changes in marriage and their social, cultural and economic context.
