Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937-1949
Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundariesPart I. On the road -- Prologue: 1937 -- Making crime mobile -- Policing mobility -- Part II. In the neighborhood -- Prologue: 1938 -- City of newcomers -- Networks on the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
Harvard Univ. Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Harvard East Asian monographs
384 |
| Schlagworte: |
Women
> History
> Poor women
> Working class women
> Poverty
> Marriage
> Social aspects
> Neighborhoods
> Social networks
> Crime
> Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
> Social conditions
> Beijing (China)
> Peking
> Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg
> Frau
> Unterschicht
> Prozess
> Geschichte 1937-1949
> China
> Arbeiterin
> Armut
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundariesPart I. On the road -- Prologue: 1937 -- Making crime mobile -- Policing mobility -- Part II. In the neighborhood -- Prologue: 1938 -- City of newcomers -- Networks on the move -- Part III. In between marriages -- Prologue: 1944 -- In search of a livelihood -- Managing serial marriages -- Part IV. Under the red flag -- Prologue: 1949 -- Creating the socialist neighborhood -- Glossary. "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"-- "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 366 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780674088382 978-0-674-08838-2 |