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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818815303321

Autore

Lin Xiaodong

Titolo

Gender, modernity and male migrant workers in China : becoming a 'modern' man / / Xiaodong Lin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-06973-5

0-203-59090-2

1-299-46964-7

1-135-06974-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary china series

Classificazione

SOC008000SOC018000SOC032000

Disciplina

331.5/610951

Soggetti

Rural-urban migration - China - History

Migration, Internal - China - History

Male employees - China - History

Masculinity - China

Men - China

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

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Introduction; 2 Representing 'peasant workers'; 3 Leaving home and being a 'filial son'; 4 'Father-son' relations and/or becoming urban working-class; 5 Conclusion: Becoming a 'modern' man; 6 Postscript: Youth, aspirations and masculinities; Appendix: Research participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people's lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women's experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, in contrast, research on rural men's experience of migration is a neglected area of study. In response, this book seeks to address the absence of male migrant workers as a gendered category within the current literature on rural-urban migration.Examining Chin