Merchants' daughters : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China /
Merchants' daughters : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China /
edited by Helen F. Siu.
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010.
- 1 online resource (xii, 375 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; I -- Cultural Spaces between State-Making and Kinship; 1 -- Women's Images Reconstructed: The Sisters-in-Law Tomb and Its Legend; 2 -- Images of Mother: The Place of Women in South China; 3 -- "What Alternative Do You Have, Sixth Aunt?" -- Women and Marriage in Cantonese Ballads; 4 -- Women's Work and Women's Food in Lineage Land; II -- Agency in Emigrant, Colonial, and Mercantile Societies; 5 -- Stepping out? Women in the Chaoshan Emigrant Communities, 1850-1950; 6 -- Abandoned into Prosperity: Women on the Fringe of Expatriate Society 7 -- The Eurasian Way of Being a Chinese Woman: Lady Clara Ho Tung and Buddhism in Prewar Hong KongIII -- Work and Activism in a Gendered Age; 8 -- Women of Influence: Gendered Charisma; 9 -- Women Workers in Hong Kong, 1960s-1990s: Voices, Meanings, and Structural Constraints; 10 -- Half the Sky: Mobility and Late Socialist Reflections; 11- Fantasies of "Chinese-ness" and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
This collection provides further theoretical application of a 'regional construct' that appreciates process, transcends definitive powers of administrative borders, and brings out nuanced gender notions.
9789882205796 (electronic bk.) 9882205798 (electronic bk.) 9888083481 9789888083480 9789882207189 (ebook) 9882207189 (ebook)
9789888083480
22573/ctt1kczmh JSTOR
Businesswomen--Regional disparities.--China
Businesswomen--China--Hong Kong.
Businesswomen--China--Guangdong Sheng.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--General.
Businesswomen.
China.
China--Guangdong Sheng.
China--Hong Kong.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD6200 / .M47 2010eb
338.0082095125
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; I -- Cultural Spaces between State-Making and Kinship; 1 -- Women's Images Reconstructed: The Sisters-in-Law Tomb and Its Legend; 2 -- Images of Mother: The Place of Women in South China; 3 -- "What Alternative Do You Have, Sixth Aunt?" -- Women and Marriage in Cantonese Ballads; 4 -- Women's Work and Women's Food in Lineage Land; II -- Agency in Emigrant, Colonial, and Mercantile Societies; 5 -- Stepping out? Women in the Chaoshan Emigrant Communities, 1850-1950; 6 -- Abandoned into Prosperity: Women on the Fringe of Expatriate Society 7 -- The Eurasian Way of Being a Chinese Woman: Lady Clara Ho Tung and Buddhism in Prewar Hong KongIII -- Work and Activism in a Gendered Age; 8 -- Women of Influence: Gendered Charisma; 9 -- Women Workers in Hong Kong, 1960s-1990s: Voices, Meanings, and Structural Constraints; 10 -- Half the Sky: Mobility and Late Socialist Reflections; 11- Fantasies of "Chinese-ness" and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
This collection provides further theoretical application of a 'regional construct' that appreciates process, transcends definitive powers of administrative borders, and brings out nuanced gender notions.
9789882205796 (electronic bk.) 9882205798 (electronic bk.) 9888083481 9789888083480 9789882207189 (ebook) 9882207189 (ebook)
9789888083480
22573/ctt1kczmh JSTOR
Businesswomen--Regional disparities.--China
Businesswomen--China--Hong Kong.
Businesswomen--China--Guangdong Sheng.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--General.
Businesswomen.
China.
China--Guangdong Sheng.
China--Hong Kong.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD6200 / .M47 2010eb
338.0082095125