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

• 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
• ISBN: 988-220-718-9; 988-220-579-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810593803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II