Beyond Tears and Laughter - Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)


This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also examines the gender dynamics at work, in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized, yet huge population. With an in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai, this book sheds humanising new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will be of direct value to policymakers, demographers, feminist scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and responsible citizens.

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This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also examines the gender dynamics at work, in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized, yet huge population. With an in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai, this book sheds humanising new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will be of direct value to policymakers, demographers, feminist scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and responsible citizens.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Springer Verlag, Singapore

Country of origin

Singapore

Series

New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society

Release date

February 2019

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2019

Authors

Dimensions

210 x 148mm (L x W)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

215

Edition

1st ed. 2019

ISBN-13

978-981-13-5816-6

Barcode

9789811358166

Categories

LSN

981-13-5816-8



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