Merchants' daughters : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China /

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This collection provides further theoretical application of a 'regional construct' that appreciates process, transcends definitive powers of administrative borders, and brings out nuanced gender notions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Siu, Helen F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Businesswomen > China > Regional disparities.
Businesswomen > China > Hong Kong.
Businesswomen > China > Guangdong Sheng.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Businesswomen
China
China > Guangdong Sheng
China > Hong Kong
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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