Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: Sep 28, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780674088382
Description: "Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--
Notes: Source title: Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)