Bibliograph

Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937 - 1949, Zhao Ma

Type

Label

Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937 - 1949, Zhao Ma

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937 - 1949

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

927428466

Responsibility statement

Zhao Ma

Series statement

Harvard East Asian monographs, 384

Summary

"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundariesPart I. On the road -- Prologue: 1937 -- Making crime mobile -- Policing mobility -- Part II. In the neighborhood -- Prologue: 1938 -- City of newcomers -- Networks on the move -- Part III. In between marriages -- Prologue: 1944 -- In search of a livelihood -- Managing serial marriages -- Part IV. Under the red flag -- Prologue: 1949 -- Creating the socialist neighborhood -- Glossary

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