Abstract
Economic globalization has attracted and pushed massive flows of entrepreneurs and professional across borders to work at different parts of the world. Taiwanese business people going to China since late 1980s have been part of the trend. Today,hundreds and thousands of Taiwanese investors and professional have gone to China for business and job opportunities. As a result, many Taiwanese families have become transnational families in which it is usually one spouse in China and the rest of the family in Taiwan. By interviews twenty-five Taiwanese business people in China and spouses and children of Taiwanese business people in Taiwan, this research explores the dynamic relations between parents and children in those transnational families. This research finds that the frequency of visits, the pattern of interaction, the gendered division of labor, marital relation, and gendered parenting are key factors that shape intimate relations within those transnational families. It also finds that mothers are the center of those transnational families and the relationship between fathers and their children are found to be rather distance.