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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]

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Ma, Zhao, 1973- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 [by Ma, Z.]

Related Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs; [volume] 384

Subjects:

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

Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

1900-1999

Working class women

Poverty

Marriage — Social aspects

Marriage

Neighborhoods

Social networks

Crime

Women

Social aspects

Social conditions

Poor women

Japan

China — Beijing

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1770.B36 M3 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781684175598 (electronic bk.)
1684175593 (electronic bk.)
9780674088382 [Invalid]
0674088387 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1048116608