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Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fran MartinPublish date:2022-02-22Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478017615ISBN-10:1478017619UPC:9781478017615Book Category:Social Science, Education, HistoryBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Student Life & Student Affairs, AsiaBook Topic:ChinaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCYZCFC7TE
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women's motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478017615ISBN-10:1478017619UPC:9781478017615Book Category:Social Science, Education, HistoryBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Student Life & Student Affairs, AsiaBook Topic:ChinaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCYZCFC7TE
Fran Martin is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, and coauthor of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, both also published by Duke University Press.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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