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Record Nr.

UNISA996247898903316

Autore

Rofel Lisa <1953->

Titolo

Other modernities : gendered yearnings in China after socialism / / Lisa Rofel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c1999

ISBN

0-520-91986-6

0-585-27336-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 330 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

305.4/0951/242

Soggetti

Women - China - Hangzhou Shi - Case studies

Women silk industry workers - China - Hangzhou Shi - Case studies

Women and socialism - China - Hangzhou Shi - Case studies

Socialism - China - History - 20th century

Socialism - China - 20th century

Women - Case studies - 20th century - Hangzhou Shi - China

Women silk industry workers - Case studies - China - Hangzhou Shi

Women and socialism - Case studies - Hangzhou Shi - China

Socialism - History - China

China History 1949-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires --- Part I. Re-Collecting History. 1. Liberation Stories -- 2. The Poetics of Productivity -- 3. Socialist Nostalgia --- Part II. Unsettling Memories. 4. She -- 5. The Politics of Authority -- 6. Yearnings --- Part III. Space and Subjectivity. 7. Allegories of Postsocialism -- 8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory



right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970's, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives."--Book cover.