TY - BOOK AU - Jacka,Tamara TI - Rural women in urban China: gender, migration, and social change SN - 0765608200 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HQ1767 .R327 2005 U1 - 307.2/4/0820951 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Armonk, N.Y. PB - M.E. Sharpe, Inc. KW - Rural women KW - China KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - Rural-urban migration KW - Migrant labor KW - Migration, Internal KW - Women internal migrants KW - Migratie (demografie) KW - Plattelandsbevolking KW - Sociale verandering KW - Urbanisatie KW - Vrouwen KW - Femmes en milieu rural KW - Chine KW - Conditions sociales KW - Conditions économiques KW - Exode rural KW - Travailleurs migrants KW - Migration intérieure KW - gtt KW - Frau KW - swd KW - Landflucht N1 - 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 ER -