Other modernities : gendered yearnings in China after socialism / [electronic resource]
Rofel, Lisa,1953-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c1999.
"In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970's, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives."--Book cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-318) and index.
Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires --- Part I. Re-Collecting History. 1. Liberation Stories -- 2. The Poetics of Productivity -- 3. Socialist Nostalgia --- Part II. Unsettling Memories. 4. She -- 5. The Politics of Authority -- 6. Yearnings --- Part III. Space and Subjectivity. 7. Allegories of Postsocialism -- 8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline.
"In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970's, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives."--Book cover.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Women
Women silk industry workers
Women and socialism
Socialism
Socialism
Women
Women silk industry workers
Women and socialism
Socialism