| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rural women -- Social conditions.
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Rural women -- Social conditions. |
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Rural women -- China -- Economic conditions.
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Rural women. |
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China. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Rural-urban migration -- China.
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Rural-urban migration. |
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Migrant labor -- China.
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Migrant labor. |
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Migration, Internal -- China.
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Migration, Internal. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jacka, Tamara, 1965- Rural women in urban China. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ©2005 (DLC) 2005020340 |
| ISBN |
0765608200 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780765608208 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780765621603 (electronic book) |
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0765621606 (electronic book) |
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1280912162 |
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9781280912160 |
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9781317460619 |
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1317460618 |
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0765608219 |
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9780765608215 |
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