It is an age-old that growing economic wealth divorce, and China, with its soaring income levels, is hardly to this new splittism. It is a of social change that is increasingly upsetting the guardians of Chinese tradition.
Since the Communist Party came to power, divorce cases have sharply 3 times.
The first time was in the early 1950s when the newly installed Communists the centuries-old practice of arranged marriage, encouraging adults to pick their spouses on their own.
This inspired many men, including Communist officials who had so newly come to power, to divorce the wives that had been arranged for them. Few of these divorce cases were initiated by women because they were going to suffer economically. The decade of the 1950s saw more than 1.1 million divorces, most of them in the first half of the decade.
The second spike was during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. As major targets of the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong, many party and government officials as well as intellectuals had been denounced as ``capitalist roaders,'' ``,'' ``reactionaries'' or anti-party elements.
In many of these cases, those who were married would arrange for a divorce so that his or her spouse and their children would not be . In other cases, spouses turned against their mates to prove themselves worthy .