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Viewed from the ‘frog-in-the-well’ perspective of women, marriage, household
formation and the rural housing boom, then, the rapid growth of China’s markets is seen
to be impelled not just by the reformist zeal of government and by entrepreneurial
endeavour, but also by complex cultural forces. However, as Dirlik points out, in
negotiating some degree of emancipation from the obligations imposed upon them by
patrilocal residence and patrilineal reproduction, in transacting their entitlement to
housing and in acquiring the structures and styles of modern domesticity, young women
render themselves and their future families more vulnerable to the storms of globalised
markets.

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