This volume presents findings on domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and 21st century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on women's employment in China.
This volume presents findings on domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and 21st century. Experts in gender...
In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts are now generally seen to occupy an important place in the development of Chinese literature as a whole, and of Chinese vernacular literature in particular. In the first monographic treatment of all the...
In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlea...