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



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Titolo: Merchants' daughters : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China / / edited by Helen F. Siu Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
Disciplina: 338.0082095125
Soggetto topico: Businesswomen - China - Regional disparities
Businesswomen - China - Hong Kong
Businesswomen - China - Guangdong Sheng
Altri autori: SiuHelen F  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Merchants' daughters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 988-220-718-9
988-220-579-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810593803321
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