Since the late 1970s, China has transformed from an inefficient centrally planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. While economic reform has enabled average living standards to improve immensely, the benefits have been shared disproportionately depending on demographic factors such as location, age, gender, and social class.

This new four-volume collection from Routledge addresses some of the pertinent questions raised by the difference in ordinary people's experience of China's economic modernization. In particular: what are the socio-cultural transformations...

This Handbook contains interdisciplinary contributions from leading academics to provide a cutting edge overview of scholarship on gender in Greater China, Japan and South Korea. Contributions cover a wide range of gender related issues in East Asia; including the formation of gender norms, women's suffrage and feminist movements, the impact of gender on work, health and sexuality and depictions of masculinity and femininity in culture and media.

This survey is essential reading for scholars and students working on East Asia as well as in related interdisciplinary fields that focus...

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as `white-collar beauties'. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance.