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UNINA9910457555203321 |
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Titolo |
Merchants' daughters [[electronic resource] ] : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China / / edited by Helen F. Siu |
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Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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988-220-718-9 |
988-220-579-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (389 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Businesswomen - China - Regional disparities |
Businesswomen - China - Hong Kong |
Businesswomen - China - Guangdong Sheng |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant |
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