Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 /

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"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ma, Zhao, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class women.
Women.
Social networks.
Social conditions.
Social aspects.
Poverty.
Poor women.
Neighborhoods.
Marriage > Social aspects.
Crime.
Guerre sino-japonaise, 1937-1945 > Aspect social > Chine > Pekin.
Femmes pauvres > Chine > Pekin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Pauvrete > Chine > Pekin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Reseaux sociaux > Chine > Pekin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Chine > Pekin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mariage > Aspect social > Chine > Pekin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > Social aspects > China > Beijing.
Crime > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Social networks > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Neighborhoods > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Marriage > Social aspects > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Poverty > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Working class women > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Poor women > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Beijing > History > 20th century.
China > Beijing.
Beijing (China) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781684175598

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