ISBN:
9780674088382
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 366 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Harvard East asian monographs 384
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian monographs
DDC:
305.40951/1560904
Keywords:
Women History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Poor women History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Working class women History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Poverty History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Marriage Social aspects
;
History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Neighborhoods History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Social networks History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Crime History
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Social aspects
;
China
;
Beijing
;
Crime
;
Marriage Social aspects
;
Neighborhoods
;
Poor women
;
Poverty
;
Social aspects
;
Social conditions
;
Social networks
;
Women
;
Working class women
;
Women History 20th century
;
Poor women History 20th century
;
Working class women History 20th century
;
Poverty History 20th century
;
Marriage Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Neighborhoods History 20th century
;
Social networks History 20th century
;
Crime History 20th century
;
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Social aspects
;
Beijing (China) Social conditions
;
20th century
;
China
;
Beijing
;
History
;
Beijing (China) Social conditions 20th century
;
Peking
;
Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg
;
Frau
;
Unterschicht
;
Prozess
;
Geschichte 1937-1949
;
China
;
Peking
;
Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg
;
Frau
;
Arbeiterin
;
Armut
;
Geschichte 1937-1949
Abstract:
"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--
Abstract:
"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundariesPart I. On the road -- Prologue: 1937 -- Making crime mobile -- Policing mobility -- Part II. In the neighborhood -- Prologue: 1938 -- City of newcomers -- Networks on the move -- Part III. In between marriages -- Prologue: 1944 -- In search of a livelihood -- Managing serial marriages -- Part IV. Under the red flag -- Prologue: 1949 -- Creating the socialist neighborhood -- Glossary.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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