Other Modernities Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism

Name: Other Modernities Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism
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ISBN: 9780520210790

ISBN-10: 0520210794

ISBN-13: 9780520210790

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lisa Rofel

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In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 321
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires



Re-Collecting History



Liberation Stories



The Poetics of Productivity



Socialist Nostalgia



Unsettling Memories


Interlude



She



The Politics of Authority



Yearnings



Space and Subjectivity



Allegories of Postsocialism



Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline


Coda


Notes


Bibliography


Index