Rural women in urban China : gender, migration, and social change /
Tamara Jacka.
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2005.
- xii, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text -- Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China -- Map 2. Beijing municipality.