The Missing Girls And Women Of China Hong Kong And Taiwan

Author : Hua-Lun Huang
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786488346

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The Missing Girls and Women of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan by Hua-Lun Huang Pdf

In the past century, tens of millions of women and girls have disappeared in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. There are many reasons: the women variously were sold as "foreign spouses"; imprisoned for their political beliefs; taken to night clubs or massage parlors to work as "escorts"; provided as "comfort women" to soldiers; or murdered by female corpse dealers and sold as "ghost brides" to families looking to give their deceased sons wives in the afterlife. The youngest girls fell victim to infanticide, the tragic result of a "one child" law in a male-dominated society. As a result of the gender imbalance these disappearances created, countless young males now suffer from the "marriage squeeze," remaining single without families of their own. This sociological study explores the institutional factors, develops a typology for these populations, and lays a foundation for the examination of lost populations in the future.

Author : Xiaobing Li
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610696265

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Modern China by Xiaobing Li Pdf

Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China. In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not only comprehensive coverage of Chinese civilization and traditions, but also addressing the values, issues, and critical views of China. As a result, readers will better understand the transformative experience of the most populous country in the world, and will grasp the complexity of the progress and problems behind the rise of China to a world superpower in less than 30 years. Written by an author who lived in China for three decades, this encyclopedia addresses 16 key topics regarding China, such as its geography, government, social classes and ethnicities, gender-based identities, arts, media, and food, each followed by roughly 250 short entries related to each topic. All the entries are placed within a broad sociopolitical and socioeconomic contextual framework. The format and writing consistency through the book reflects a Chinese perspective, and allows students to compare Chinese with Western and American views.

Author : Alena Ledeneva
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800086142

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The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3 by Alena Ledeneva Pdf

For a post-human hitchhiker, human life – with its anxiety, ageing, illness and constant need for problem-solving – may look unviable. Yet, for humans, the life struggle is softened by human touch, human emotion and human cooperation. The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3 continues the journey of the two previous volumes into the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices. It focuses on issues of emotional ambivalence and pressures of the digital age. The informal practices presented in this volume demonstrate the urgency of alleviating tensions between continuity and all-too-rapid change and the need to tackle the central problem of modern societies – uncertainty. The volume takes a reader on a ‘biographical’ journey through elusive, taken-for-granted or banal ways of getting things done from over 70 countries and world regions. It offers innovative understanding of the significance of fringes, and challenges the assumption that informality is associated exclusively with poverty, underdevelopment, the Global South, oppressive regimes or the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It also maps the patterns of informality around the globe; identifies specific informal practices in a context-sensitive way; and documents their ambivalent impact on people engaged in problem-solving, on societies in which these problems arise, and on humanity overall. Praise for The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3 ‘This book tells a story of human cooperation. It is not the narrative you’ll find in books teaching you how to solve problems. It is an assemblage of something much more endemic, fundamentally human, and much more pervasive than we tend to think of informality. It involves money and power, but also the alternative currencies of gaining advantage or gaming the system.’ Bruce Schneier, author of A Hacker's Mind ‘Alena Ledeneva’s latest database of rule bending is a goldmine for documentary makers and storytellers. Entries from 70 countries, covering a human lifespan from Chinese “anchor babies” to funeral feasts in Azerbaijan, offer remarkable insights into the way the world really works.’ Lucy Ash, journalist

Author : Michael Tai
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786997791

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China and Her Neighbours by Michael Tai Pdf

For centuries, China was confident in its role as the ‘Middle Kingdom’, the undisputed cultural, economic and political powerhouse of Asia. Today, with China once again a leading player on the world stage, countries across the continent are facing an uncertain future. Does China’s rise threaten its neighbours? And what, ultimately, is its end goal? Nowhere are these questions more pressing than in the Pacific, where China’s maritime neighbours find themselves directly in the path of the country’s expanding territorial claims. In this rich historical exploration, Michael Tai finds answers to these and other questions through an in-depth exploration of China’s past. Spanning thousands of years of Chinese and Asian history, China and Her Neighbours looks at China’s evolving relations with Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. While the disputes in the Pacific have attracted widespread attention, very few investigations have considered the wider historical context of these tensions.

Author : Surya Deva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317804680

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Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets by Surya Deva Pdf

In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies. The tremendous economic growth in China and India has meant that they have been able to lift millions of people out of the poverty trap. This growth has not, however, been without problems. Apart from worrying levels of environmental pollution, a significant number of people are still struggling to live a decent life as they do not have adequate access to basic needs such as food, health services, education, water, and housing. The traditional old age support mechanism is collapsing amidst push for urbanisation and the practice of nuclear families, while the alternative social security system has not been put in place. Both China and India stress the importance of socio-economic rights, have ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and have in place a strong legal framework for the realisation of such rights. The constitutions of China and India accord significant importance to socio-economic rights and the both countries have numerous laws, regulations and policies that seek to implement various socio-economic rights. This book investigates how the gradual adoption of free market ideology has impacted on the realisation of socio-economic rights in both India and China and how the constitutional and legal frameworks have made necessary adjustments. Chapters in this volume, which are written by academics of international standing, explore how these two countries have tried to overcome certain common governance challenges in realising socio-economic rights. The role played by courts in India and China in the protection and realisation of socio-economic rights is considered along with the use and limitations of public interest litigation in achieving these rights. Finally, the effectiveness of measures in realising socio-economic rights are evaluated in relation to specific rights such as the rights to food, health, education, social security, and gender equality.

Author : Lan Dong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216050056

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Asian American Culture [2 volumes] by Lan Dong Pdf

Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and popular culture, this two-volume work is an ideal resource for students and general readers that reveals the historical, regional, and ethnic diversity within specific traditions. An invaluable reference for school and public libraries as well as academic libraries at colleges and universities, this two-volume encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms that enables readers to understand the history, complexity, and contemporary practices in Asian American culture. The contributed entries address the diversity of a group comprising people with geographically discrete origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, identifying the rich variations across the category of Asian American culture that are key to understanding specific cultural expressions while also pointing out some commonalities. Entries are organized alphabetically and cover topics in the arts; education and politics; family and community; gender and sexuality; history and immigration; holidays, festivals, and folk tradition; literature and culture; media, sports, and popular culture; and religion, belief, and spirituality. Entries also broadly cover Asian American origins and history, regional practices and traditions, contemporary culture, and art and other forms of shared expression. Accompanying sidebars throughout serve to highlight key individuals, major events, and significant artifacts and allow readers to better appreciate the Asian American experience.

Author : John James Kennedy,Yaojiang Shi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190917449

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Lost and Found by John James Kennedy,Yaojiang Shi Pdf

In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.

Author : Jay D White,William A. Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315284712

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China Briefing by Jay D White,William A. Joseph Pdf

This work provides a retrospective analysis of important events in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the mid-1990s and a prospective look at some of the issues that will shape these areas as they each move toward decisive turning points in their distinct yet intertwined histories.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Infant girls
ISBN : MINN:31951D036474191

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India's Missing Girls by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Pdf

Author : Tracey Wilen
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780893469931

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China for Businesswomen by Tracey Wilen Pdf

A practical guide to helping women work, negotiate, and succeed in Asia's commercial superpower.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCR:31210024059501

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Feminist Collections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xiaowei Zang,Lucy Xia Zhao
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785368196

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Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China by Xiaowei Zang,Lucy Xia Zhao Pdf

This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.

Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134494590

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Between Sex and Power by Göran Therborn Pdf

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.

Author : Ruby Y.S. Lai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000785340

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Premarital Abortion in China by Ruby Y.S. Lai Pdf

Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates the role of individual choice, relationships, and institutions in unmarried Chinese women’s decisions to terminate their pregnancies. Where many previous studies have focused on abortion in China as a state-mandated procedure to enforce the one-child policy, Lai looks at a new era, where abortion is primarily based on individuals’ decisions. While young women in China enjoy greater freedom to pursue their personal, sexual, and reproductive aspirations, their autonomy remains constrained by structural inequalities of gender, class, and migration status, which are reproduced through the intersection of state policies, market forces, and patriarchal family culture. In this book, Lai recounts the stories and presents the voices of unmarried young adult women, and documents the impact of sweeping socioeconomic transformation on their reproductive experiences in contemporary China amidst the ending of the one-child policy. Essential reading for scholars of Chinese society and of family and gender studies globally.

Author : Annette Kuhn,Susannah Radstone
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520088794

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The Women's Companion to International Film by Annette Kuhn,Susannah Radstone Pdf

Includes short entries for actresses, genres, studios and topics.