关键词: 族际通婚, 族内婚姻, 民族人口

Abstract: Interethnic marriage is of great significance to construct the pattern of ethnic embeddedness and create a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. Through exploring the data of the national censuses and 1% population sample surveys since 1982, this paper summarizes ten major trends in interethnic marriage in China since the reform and openingup: the universalization of interethnic marriage with a substantial increase of the population and proportion of interethnic marriage; the relative differentiation of interethnic marriage among ethnic groups; the expanding of interethnic marriage circle with the subcircles blending with each other; the relatively deep degree of interethnic marriage in northeast and southwest areas; the positive impact of urbanization on interethnic marriage; the promotion of interethnic marriage by migration; the steplike sex ratio difference; the improvement of womens family status; the positive correlation between education level and interethnic marriage; and the stratification of occupational types.

Keywords: Interethnic Marriage, Endogamy, Ethnic Population