Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Home Life of Chinese Women
Author: Dreams of Flight
Author: Fran MartinPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478022221
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.
Home Away from Home
Author: Manying IpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A study of the changing Chinese community in NZ through the autobiographical accounts of eight women.
Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes
Author: Li Yu-ningPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317474716
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers.
The Inner Quarters
Author: Patricia Buckley EbreyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520081587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."—from the Foreword
Good Chinese Wife
Author: Susan Blumberg-KasonPublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402293356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Cai—and his culture—where not what she thought. In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect traditional "Chinese" wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. With keen insight and heart-wrenching candor, she confronts the hopes and hazards of intercultural marriage, including dismissing her own values and needs to save her relationship and protect her newborn son, Jake. But when Cai threatens to take Jake back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future. Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother's love—across any border.
Chinese Women, Past & Present
Author: Esther Shu-shin Lee YaoPublisher: Mesquite, Tex. : Ide House
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Chinese Lady
Author: Nancy E. DavisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197581986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity with bound feet and a celebrity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. This first biography of Afong Moy explores how she shaped Americans' impressions of China, while living as a stranger in a foreign land.
Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010
Author: Xiaofei KangPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004415939
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.
Author: Hong Zhao