Other modernities : gendered yearnings in China after socialism / Lisa Rofel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rofel, Lisa, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--Hangzhou Shi--Case studies.

Women.

Women silk industry workers--China--Hangzhou Shi--Case studies.

Women silk industry workers.

Women and socialism--China--Hangzhou Shi--Case studies.

Women and socialism.

Socialism--China--History--20th century.

Socialism.

Socialism--China--20th century.

Women--Case studies--20th century--Hangzhou Shi--China.

Women silk industry workers--Case studies--China--Hangzhou Shi.

Women and socialism--Case studies--Hangzhou Shi--China.

Socialism--China--History.

China--History--1949-.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 330 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970's, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives."--Book cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires

- Part I. Re-Collecting History. 1. Liberation Stories

2. The Poetics of Productivity

3. Socialist Nostalgia

- Part II. Unsettling Memories. 4. She

5. The Politics of Authority

6. Yearnings

- Part III. Space and Subjectivity. 7. Allegories of Postsocialism

8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-318) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520919860

0520919866

9780585273365

0585273367

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04242 hdl