On the Move
Subtitle: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780231127066
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; Women's studies; Anthropology - General; Sociology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Sociology; 1976-; China; Migration, Internal; Rural women; Social conditions
First sentence: In the broadest sense, the goal of China's reform platform is to achieve a modernity (xiandaihua) that involves "linking tracks with the rest of the world" (yu shijie jiegui) and otherwise overcoming a sense of having fallen behind the more economically advanced West.