Intimate politics : marriage, the market, and state power in southeastern China / Sara L. Friedman.
Intimate politics : marriage, the market, and state power in southeastern China / Sara L. Friedman.
Intimate politics : marriage, the market, and state power in southeastern China / Sara L. Friedman.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
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2006.
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N305.40951/ 8
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p. cm.
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1. Industrious women and the changing meanings of labor -- 2. Fashioning liberated socialist subjects -- 3. Marriage, intimacy, and late-socialist state power -- 4. The ties that bind -- 5. Stone-carving factories, youth culture, and the lure of consumption -- 6. Ethnicity in drag : mass media, tour...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Massachusetts
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2006.
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"On a visit to eastern Hui'an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that not only was this practice typical of the area, but also typical were distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks. These customs, she would le...
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Intimate politics : marriage, the market, and state power in southeastern China / Sara L. Friedman.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 265.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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N305.40951/ 8
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74VKv6Q7O5Qd
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0674021282 (cl : alk. paper)
9780674021280 (cl : alk. paper)
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305.40951245
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991021470279702626
