Chapter 1. Unifying perspectives: Understanding scarce women and surplus men in China and India (Sharada Srinivasan and Shuzhuo LI) -- Chapter 2. Being ‘Bare Branches’: Demographic Imbalance, Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity in North India (Paro Mishra) -- Chapter 3. Household Division, Intra-Generational Inequality and Marriage Prospects of Single Men in Multi-Son Families in Rural China (Yan LI, W.D. LI, and Shuzhuo LI) -- Chapter 4. “Who Said I Was a Forced Bachelor?” Single Men’s Voices and Strategies in Rural China (Kun Zhang and Danièle Belanger) -- Chapter 5. “Now it is Difficult to Get Married”: Contextualising Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood in a North Indian Village (Shruti Chaudhry) -- Chapter 6. The Sex Ratio Question and the Unfolding of a Moral Panic?  Notions of Power, Choice and Self in Mate Selection among Women and Men in Higher Education in China (Lisa Eklund) -- Chapter 7. The Impact of Bride Shortage in South India: Vellala Gounders in Western Tamil Nadu (Judith Heyer) -- Chapter 8. Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation between Anthropologists and Demographers (Christophe Z. Guilmoto).