Chinese Urban Poor Older People S Life: an Agentic Approach

Name: Chinese Urban Poor Older People S Life: an Agentic Approach
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ISBN: 9781299425644

ISBN-10: 129942564X

ISBN-13: 9781299425644

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Authors: Jing Xu

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This book paints a picture of poor older people s life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities and deprivations, this book sheds light on how poor older people exert their active agency to live through their life difficulties - i.e. how they negotiate resources within and outside of family to pursue the kind of lives they have reason to value. Based on a prolonged period of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, the researcher highlights the experiences, perspectives, and strategies of these people developed in the context of their economic hardships against the background of massive social reform and demographic ageing in China."

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List price: $72.16
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: E-Book

Jing Xu received her PhD in social work at the University of Hong Kong. She now works as a lecturer at the Capital University of Economics and Business in Peking, China.