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

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 384 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 384. Contents Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundaries -- Part 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index Subject Women -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Poor women -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Working class women -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Poverty -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Marriage -- Social aspects -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Neighborhoods -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Social networks -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Crime -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Social aspects -- China -- Beijing Crime Marriage -- Social aspects Neighborhoods Poor women Poverty Social aspects Social conditions Social networks Women Working class women SUBJECT Beijing (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject China -- Beijing Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781684175598 1684175593

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