Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a 'Modern' Man

ISBN-13: 9781138562424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 150 str.

Lin, Xiaodong

Opis

Examining Chinese male migrant workers’ identity formation, this book explores their experience of rural-urban migration and their status in an emerging dislocated urban working class. Focusing on issues of gender and class, it provides an in-depth analysis of how these men make sense of their new lives in a modernizing post-Mao China.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Representing ‘peasant workers’  3. Leaving home and being a ‘filial son’4. ‘Father-son’ relations and/or becoming urban working class 5. Conclusion: Becoming a ‘modern’ man 6. Postscript: Youth, aspirations and masculinities

O autorze

Xiaodong Lin works in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK.