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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) as a social problem has long been seen as a complex issue, and it is important to understand how and why it happens. Such understandings may help to find strategies to minimize IPV cases. Novel corona-virus pneumonia outbreak and spread in December 2019, resulting in strict con-finement and long-term home segregation in the whole country, may lead to escalation of intimate partner violence in Mainland China. The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the samples of six female victims with recording and translating the results that collects through online-video interview. What needs to be explored is how to explain the causes and consequences of IPV in the mainland China (case study in Zhengzhou City) within the context of the epidemic situation. In the preceding of the following paragraph, based on a review of previously published literatures, we obtainstatistical reports on intimate partner violence during the Covid-19 pandemic in Chinese mainland. What needs to be recognized is that sufficient data support is available to confirm that the index of intimate partner violence has increased under the epidemic situation. Also, prior to the research starts, both feminist theory and family conflict theory facilitateus to construct a theoretical framework to pursue the findings of gender and family perspective in IPV root-cause analysis.
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