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UNINA9910450662803321 |
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Titolo |
On the move [[electronic resource] ] : women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China / / edited by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (367 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GaetanoArianne M |
JackaTamara <1965-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rural women - China - Social conditions |
Migration, Internal - China |
Electronic books. |
China Social conditions 1976-2000 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women / Jacka, Tamara / Gaetano, Arianne M. -- Part 1. Negotiating Identities -- 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing / Gaetano, Arianne M. -- 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian / Zheng, Tiantian -- 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman / Sun, Wanning -- Part 2. Seeking a Future -- 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future / Beynon, Louise -- 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City / Tan, Lin / Short, Susan E. -- Part 3. Changing Village Life -- 6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui / Fan, C. Cindy -- 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui / Lou, Binbin / Zheng, Zhenzhen / Connelly, Rachel / Roberts, Kenneth D. -- 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course / Murphy, |
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Rachel -- Part 4. Writing Lives -- 9. Migrant Women's Stories / Jacka, Tamara -- 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker / Jacka, Tamara / Xianlin, Song -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- References -- Contributors -- Index |
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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. |
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UNINA9910136575703321 |
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State-owned enterprises and state capitalism in China / / Rick Harris and William K. Martin, editors |
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New York : , : Nova, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (149 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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China in the 21st Century |
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Government business enterprises - China |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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China's breathtaking economic reform, including the rise of private enterprise, has often led observers to assume that the country's economic system has been transformed into a capitalist economy dominated by private enterprise. A number of economic, political and policy trends demonstrate that the Chinese economy has become more market-oriented. Chinese statistics show a dramatic rise in the number of ostensibly private enterprises since the late 1970s. China now has stock exchanges in two cities and hundreds of Chinese firms now have listings in exchanges beyond the mainland. In 1978, capitalists in China were official "class enemies" but in 2001 they were welcomed into the Chinese Communist Party. China's once insular economy now imports |
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more than one trillion dollars annually and is one of the top destinations for foreign investments. This book examines state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China and the role they play in China's economy, politics and foreign policy. |
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