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Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China(New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)

Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China(New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)


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This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also examines the gender dynamics at work, in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized, yet huge population. With an in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai, this book sheds humanising new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will be of direct value to policymakers, demographers, feminist scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and responsible citizens. 

Table of Contents:
1. Introducing migration, gender and service sector.- 2. Gendered subjectivities in a patriarchal China.- 3. Working in a gendered, feminised and hierarchical workplace.- 4. The shortlived jobs: from beginning to end.- 5. Negotiating intimacy: obedience, compromise and resistance.- 6. Crafting a modern person via consumption? Women and men in leisure activities.- 7. Unpacking the complexity of gender, class and hukou.

About the Author :
Yang Shen, with a PhD from the London School of Economics, is an assistant professor at School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her work explores individual experiences of Chinese migrant workers within the contemporary globalized economy. Her current research focuses on housing and intimacy, online dating, and women's fertility practices under the changing family planning policy in China.

Review :
“The book provides a good example of nuanced fieldwork observations and ethnographic details based on a longitudinal field investigation … . Readers will appreciate the rich details of daily interactions and benefit from the grassroots knowledge about migrant workers in China’s metropolitan service sector. With its in-depth analysis of migrant workers’ life and subjectivity, this is an excellent book for people who are interested in gender, migration, work and China studies more generally.” (Jing Song, The China Quarterly, February 21, 2022)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789811358166
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 215
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China
  • ISBN-10: 9811358168
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society
  • Width: 148 mm


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