Rural women in urban China : gender, migration, and social change / Tamara Jacka.
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TextPublication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 329 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0765608200
- 9780765608208
- 9780765621603
- 0765621606
- 1280912162
- 9781280912160
- 9781317460619
- 1317460618
- Börngen
- Landflucht
- Rural women -- Social conditions
- Rural women -- China -- Economic conditions
- Rural-urban migration -- China
- Migrant labor -- China
- Migration, Internal -- China
- Rural women -- China -- Social conditions
- Femmes en milieu rural -- Chine -- Conditions sociales
- Femmes en milieu rural -- Chine -- Conditions économiques
- Exode rural -- Chine
- Travailleurs migrants -- Chine
- Migration intérieure -- Chine
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- Migrant labor
- Migration, Internal
- Rural-urban migration
- Rural women -- Economic conditions
- Rural women -- Social conditions
- China
- Binnenwanderung
- China
- Frau
- Landflucht
- Urbanisatie
- Plattelandsbevolking
- Migratie (demografie)
- Vrouwen
- Sociale verandering
- 307.2/4/0820951 22
- HQ1767 .R327 2005eb
- 71.14
- MS 1260
- MS 1560
- MS 3000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text -- Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China -- Map 2. Beijing municipality.
Based on in-depth ethnographic research (using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves) a first-hand account of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century.
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