Merchants' daughters : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China / edited by Helen F. Siu.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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
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