On July 28 1976 a devastating earthquake struck the Chinese city of Tangshan killing over 200000 and injuring more than 160000 people. Following this disaster researchers...began studying the reconstruction of the survivors families through rapid and extensive remarriage....This paper presents perspectives and evidence on why so many remarriages occurred in a society where remarriage was traditionally considered a violation of established norms. It also examines why some widows and widowers...remained unmarried. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA) (EXCERPT)
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Chen et al. (1992) studied this question.