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Author | : Huifen Shen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-09-30 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
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In China's Left-Behind Wives, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young men from southern China travelled to Southeast Asia in search of work. Some were married and others returned to marry, but they routinely left their wives in China to handle family affairs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival materials, local gazetteers, newspapers and periodicals, the author describes the experiences of left-behind wives in the Quanzhou region of Fujian from the 1930s to the 1050s, a time when war and political change caused customary practices to break down. Migrant marriages were nearly always arranged, and girls rarely met their husbands before the wedding. Normally a bride lived with her new husband for just a few weeks or months, after which he went abroad. The circumstances in the 1940s and 1950s were such that many of these young women rarely, or never, saw their husbands again. When the Pacific War cut off communications, the loss of remittance money meant that they faced a difficult struggle for survival. The war's end brought a brief respite, but the communist ascendency led to further difficult adjustments. Ultimately, the experiences of the left-behind wives drew them into public life and business, and as Overseas Chinese policies, and attitudes towards women, changed in China, they came to play an increasingly significant part in the processes of development and modernization.
Author | : Leta Hong Fincher |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1783607912 |
Download Leftover Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘Scattered with inspiring life-stories of courageous women.’ The Guardian In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. In Leftover Women, Leta Hong Fincher exposes shocking levels of structural discrimination against women, and the broader damage this has caused to China’s economy, politics, and development.
Author | : Ye Jingzhong |
Publisher | : Paths International Ltd |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1844640868 |
Download Left-Behind Children in Rural China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This ground breaking work is the result of research by Plan International China and the China Agricultural University on children who have been left behind in their rural villages when their parents migrate to cities in search of work.
Author | : Rachel Murphy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110883485X |
Download The Children of China's Great Migration Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.
Author | : Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520288270 |
Download Masculine Compromise Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to ChinaÕs sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations.
Author | : Roseann Lake |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0393254631 |
Download Leftover in China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future. Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons. Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: "leftovers." Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China’s single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling “leftovers,” who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men’s general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives. Part critique of China’s paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China’s trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake’s Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these "leftovers" are the linchpin to China’s future.
Author | : Huifen Shen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Download Engendering Chinese Migration History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : C. Cindy Fan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
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Download Left Behind? Migration Stories of Two Women in Rural China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lily Liqi Pietryka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2017-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781520714554 |
Download China's Second Wives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why do men cheat? What do their wives put up with it? Who are the women they cheat with? Why do these women choose married men instead of single guys? Is it for money, sex, or love? In modern day China, marital infidelity is rampant and mistresses/second wives are prevalent. China's Second Wives offers an intimate look into China's second wife culture, a modern incarnation of the concubine tradition of feudal China. To uncover the mystery of this social phenomenon, the author infiltrated secret second-wife chatrooms as an undercover. She tracked down a second wife broker and a second wife lawyer. She interviewed friends, family, classmates, and strangers in the street. She mingled in the banquets of the power elite, male bastions where young mistresses were signs of prestige. She traversed big cities and small villages. As we follow the author on her exciting investigation journey, we embark on an unforgettable culture tour of contemporary China. One can't help but contemplate these universal themes in her own life - love and sex, money and power, gender conflict and dependency, marriage and infidelity, and the never ending pressure of life itself.
Author | : Robert Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
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Download Left Behind? The Status of Women in Contemporary China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle