A Hore In China

Author : Jeanie Hore
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479744247
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hore in China written by Jeanie Hore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003 I was given the opportunity to go to China to teach English. I had a contract for one year. I realized that life in China was more interesting than anything I had experienced before so I stayed. This book contains many antidotes and stories about what happened to me, around me and in China generally. This is a first-hand view of everyday life in China.

Author : Jeanie Hore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479744237
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hore in China written by Jeanie Hore and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth J. Remick
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804790833
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating Prostitution in China written by Elizabeth J. Remick and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities. Intervention by way of prostitution regulation connected the local state, politics, and gender relations in important new ways. The decisions that local governments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable effects on the structures and capacities of the state. This book examines how the ways in which local government chose to shape the institution of prostitution ended up transforming local states themselves. It begins by looking at the origins of prostitution regulation in Europe and how it spread from there to China via Tokyo. Elizabeth Remick then drills down into the different regulatory approaches of Guangzhou (revenue-intensive), Kunming (coercion-intensive), and Hangzhou (light regulation). In all three cases, there were distinct consequences and implications for statebuilding, some of which made governments bigger and wealthier, some of which weakened and undermined development. This study makes a strong case for why gender needs to be written into the story of statebuilding in China, even though women, generally barred from political life at that time in China, were not visible political actors.

Author : Pun Ngai
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386755
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made in China written by Pun Ngai and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family. Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China’s Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers’ perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.

Author : Eric Qiao
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509207945
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Girl in China written by Eric Qiao and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoptee Ed Li is on a mission to find his missing sister. An elaborate plan is devised that involves him teaching in a rural Chinese village, which Ed soon discovers it isn't his idea of a good time. In fact, when he sees a chance to quit, he takes it. But just before he can get out of Dodge, a local girl is murdered. Suspect? That Chinese teacher from America: Ed. With the help of his female colleague, Ed sets out to clear his name, uncovering a web of deceit in a village that's on the verge of becoming a lucrative jade mine. The deeper he digs, the more horrors he unearths. With memories of his sister drawing uncanny parallels to the victim's life, possibility of redemption and revenge looms.

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Publisher : Niki Yan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Love for you, Tom Cruise--A Desperate Chinese Girl's Confession written by and published by Niki Yan. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marian Field Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in China written by Marian Field Frank and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China written by American Academy of Political and Social Science and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ho Lin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781587903847
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Girl written by Ho Lin and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come to grips with her own family tragedies. A princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Actors placed at the service of comedies and tragedies, depending on a filmmaker's whim? These are the characters that populate Ho Lin's short story collection China Girl.In its nine tales, China Girl documents the collisions between East and West, the power of myth and the burden of history, and loves lost and almost found. The stories in this collection encompass everything from contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memories and the art of storytelling. Wide-ranging and playful, China Girl is a journey into today's Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination.

Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006197580X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chu Ju's House written by Gloria Whelan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. To make room for one, this girl will have to go. Fourteen-year-old Chu Ju knows she cannot allow this to happen to her sister. Understanding that one girl must leave, she sets out in the middle of the night, vowing not to return. With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.