1st Edition
Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China Becoming a 'Modern' Man
By Xiaodong Lin
Copyright 2013
168 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, in contrast, research on rural men’s experience of migration is a neglected... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Representing ‘peasant workers’ 3. Leaving home and being a ‘filial son’4. ‘Father-son’ relations and/or becoming urban working class 5. Conclusion: Becoming a ‘modern’ man 6. Postscript: Youth, aspirations and masculinities
Biography
Xiaodong Lin works in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK.
