Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 / Zhao Ma.
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TextSeries: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 384.Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781684175598
- 1684175593
- Women -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Poor women -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Working class women -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Poverty -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Marriage -- Social aspects -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Neighborhoods -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Social networks -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Crime -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Social aspects -- China -- Beijing
- Beijing (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Mariage -- Aspect social -- Chine -- P�ekin -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- Femmes -- Chine -- P�ekin -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- R�eseaux sociaux -- Chine -- P�ekin -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- Pauvret�e -- Chine -- P�ekin -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- Femmes pauvres -- Chine -- P�ekin -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- Guerre sino-japonaise, 1937-1945 -- Aspect social -- Chine -- P�ekin
- Crime
- Marriage -- Social aspects
- Neighborhoods
- Poor women
- Poverty
- Social aspects
- Social conditions
- Social networks
- Women
- Working class women
- China -- Beijing
- Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- 1900-1999
- 305.40951/1560904 23
- HQ1770.B36 M3 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.
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.
"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
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