1. Feminist Explorations of Urban China
Penn Tsz Ting Ip
Part I: Social Transitions: Contesting the Urban Middle Class
2. Gender Dynamics of Hypergamy: Insights from Parents in Shanghai’s Matchmaking Corner
Yingchun Ji, Yue Liu, and C. Cindy Fan
3. Queer Exploration of a Mobile China: The Transnational Journey of Queer Women from China
Lucetta Y. L. Kam
4. Urbanizing Entrepreneurial Women in China: The Chinese State, Female Entrepreneurs and Urban Redevelopment
Yujing Tan and Zhao Zhou
5. Anti-Marriage Feminism on Weibo: Alternative Discursive Space and Obscured Structure of Feeling
Zexu Guan
Part II: Social Struggles: The Everyday Lives of the Working Class
6. Memory in Action: Elderly Women Protesting the Demolition of a Temple
Lena Scheen
7. Spatialized Emotional Labor and Female Sellers’ Work in Shanghai: The Case of the W Store of Ai Brand
Yihui Su and Jinjin Du
8. The Female Genealogies of Grassroots Families: Mother-Daughter Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Shanghai’s Workers’ New Villages in the New Era
Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Yu Zhang, Jie Xu
9. Class and Gender: The Deformation of Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
Danxue Zhou and Xi Liu
Biography
Penn Tsz Ting Ip is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities, Language and Translation at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and a core member of the SSHRC-funded partnership project “Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb)” based at the City Institute, York University, Toronto.
