Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China (New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)

Shen, Yang

ISBN 10: 9811358168 / ISBN 13: 9789811358166

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China (New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811358168
• ISBN 13: 9789811358166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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. 

About the Author

Yang Shen, with a PhD from the London School of Economics, is an assistant professor at School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her work explores individual experiences of Chinese migrant workers within the contemporary globalized economy. Her current research focuses on housing and intimacy, online dating, and women's fertility practices under the changing family planning policy in China.