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Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 / Zhao Ma.
Van Pelt Library HQ1770.B36 M3 2015
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LIBRA HQ1770.B36 M3 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ma, Zhao, 1973-
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 384.
- Harvard East Asian monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Poor women--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Poor women.
- Working class women--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Working class women.
- Poverty--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Poverty.
- Marriage--Social aspects--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Marriage.
- Neighborhoods--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Neighborhoods.
- Social networks--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Social networks.
- Crime--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Social aspects--China--Beijing.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- History.
- Marriage--Social aspects.
- Beijing (China)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Beijing (China).
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundaries
- Part 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674088382
- 0674088387
- OCLC:
- 904801141
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