LEADER 03398nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910810593803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-220-718-9 010 $a988-220-579-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000057743 035 $a(EBL)863879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11435705 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593115 035 $a(PQKB)10527273 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605974 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11361117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605974 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580735 035 $a(PQKB)11026372 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035510 035 $a(OCoLC)763161257 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3765 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL863879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10506546 035 $a(OCoLC)842681046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC863879 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000057743 100 $a20100408d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMerchants' daughters $ewomen, commerce, and regional culture in South China /$fedited by Helen F. Siu 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (389 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a962-209-969-6 311 $a988-8083-48-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a7 - 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 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aBusinesswomen$zChina$xRegional disparities 606 $aBusinesswomen$zChina$zHong Kong 606 $aBusinesswomen$zChina$zGuangdong Sheng 615 0$aBusinesswomen$xRegional disparities. 615 0$aBusinesswomen 615 0$aBusinesswomen 676 $a338.0082095125 701 $aSiu$b Helen F$0883132 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810593803321 996 $aMerchants' daughters$93980394 997 $aUNINA