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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457555203321

Titolo

Merchants' daughters [[electronic resource] ] : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China / / edited by Helen F. Siu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2010

ISBN

988-220-718-9

988-220-579-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SiuHelen F

Disciplina

338.0082095125

Soggetti

Businesswomen - China - Regional disparities

Businesswomen - China - Hong Kong

Businesswomen - China - Guangdong Sheng

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; I - Cultural Spaces between State-Making and Kinship; 1 - Women's Images Reconstructed: The Sisters-in-Law Tomb and Its Legend; 2 - Images of Mother: The Place of Women in South China; 3 - "What Alternative Do You Have, Sixth Aunt?" - Women and Marriage in Cantonese Ballads; 4 - Women's Work and Women's Food in Lineage Land; II - Agency in Emigrant, Colonial, and Mercantile Societies; 5 - Stepping out? Women in the Chaoshan Emigrant Communities, 1850-1950; 6 - Abandoned into Prosperity: Women on the Fringe of Expatriate Society

7 - The Eurasian Way of Being a Chinese Woman: Lady Clara Ho Tung and Buddhism in Prewar Hong KongIII - Work and Activism in a Gendered Age; 8 -  Women of Influence: Gendered Charisma; 9 - Women Workers in Hong Kong, 1960s-1990s: Voices, Meanings, and Structural Constraints; 10 - Half the Sky: Mobility and Late Socialist Reflections; 11- Fantasies of "Chinese-ness" and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant



families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present.