Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime - Beijing, 1937 194

Klappentext Zhao Ma explores lower-class women's struggles with poverty! deprivation! and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect! subvert! and "escape without leaving" powerful forces such as the surveillance state! reformist discourse! and revolutionary politics. Zusammenfassung Zhao Ma explores lower-class women’s struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect, subvert, and “escape without leaving” powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Zhao Ma
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780674088382
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08838-2
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni