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Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949
Zhao Ma
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Description for Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949
Hardback. "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"-- Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 36. Weight in Grams: 612.
Zhao Ma explores lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect, subvert, and escape without leaving powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics.
Zhao Ma explores lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect, subvert, and escape without leaving powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
654g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674088382
SKU
V9780674088382
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About Zhao Ma
Zhao Ma is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture at Washington University in St. Louis.
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