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Title On the move : women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China / edited by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 355 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Focusing on migrant women / Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano -- Filial daughters, modern women : migrant domestic workers in post-Mao Beijing / Arianne M. Gaetano -- From peasant women to bar hostesses : gender and modernity in post-Mao Dalian / Tiantian Zheng -- Indoctrination, fetishization, and compassion : media constructions of the migrant woman / Wanning Sun -- Dilemmas of the heart : rural working women and their hopes for the future / Louise Beynon -- Living as double outsiders : migrant women's experiences of marriage in a county-level city / Lin Tan and Susan E. Short -- Out to the city and back to the village : the experiences and contributions of rural women migrating from Sichuan and Anhui / C. Cindy Fan -- The migration experiences of young women from four counties in Sichuan and Anhui / Binbin Lou [and others] -- The impact of labor migration on the well-being and agency of rural Chinese women : cultural and economic contexts and the life course / Rachel Murphy -- Migrant women's stories / Tamara Jacka -- My life as a migrant worker / translations by Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin. Let bygones be bygones / Cui Jingyu ; The law is by my side / Huang Zhihua ; Burdened youth / Mian Xiaohong ; I am a cloud / Pang Hui ; Looking back, I am proud / Wang Xiangfen ; Leaving Huaihua Valley : a Sichuan girl's own account of being a migrant worker / Zhou Rencong ; Working for myself / Li Jianying.
Summary This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China. Contributor:Arianne M. Gaetano; Binbin Lou, Zhenzhen Zheng, Rachel Connelly, Kenneth D. Roberts; C. Cindy Fan; Lin Tan and Susan E. Short; Louise Beynon; Rachel Murphy; Tamara Jacka; Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano; Tiantian Zheng; Translations Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin; Wanning Sun.
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Subject Rural women -- China -- Social conditions.
Rural women.
China.
Social conditions.
Migration, Internal -- China.
Migration, Internal.
China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000.
Chronological Term 1976-2000
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gaetano, Arianne M.
Jacka, Tamara, 1965-
Added Title Women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China
Other Form: Print version: On the move. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 0231127065 0231127073 (DLC) 2003048900 (OCoLC)52121465
ISBN 0231501730 (electronic book)
9780231501736 (electronic book)
9780231127066
9780231127073
0231127065
0231127073 (paperback)