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City of Working Women: Life, Space, and Social Control in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing Volume 64

City of Working Women: Life, Space, and Social Control in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing Volume 64

Cheng, Weikun

Paperback

Series: China Research Monograph

Chinese HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1557290989
ISBN13: 9781557290984
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies University of
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Situating laboring-class women in the larger context of the political liberalization and the profound social and economic transformations in late Qing and early Republican Beijing, this book presents a nuanced picture of women's potentials and possibilities, and their dangers and anxieties, in a rapidly changing city. The work is a major contribution to feminist scholarship, balancing two approaches: treating women as agents and using gender as an analytical category. Its focus on lower-class women's use of urban public space opens a new dimension in the study of modern Chinese cities. The volume contains solid research based on a variety of original sources, including local archives, newspapers and magazines, memoirs, social surveys, and interviews.

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