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Chinese Women—Living and Working

This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in
China’s burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in
gender, politics, media studies and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform
and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions,
the prostitution industry and domestic service. Significant themes include changing
marriage and consumer aspirations and the reinvention of domestic space. The volume
offers fresh insights into changing definitions of ‘women’s work’ in contemporary China
and questions women’s perceived ‘disadvantage’ in the market economy
Anne E.McLaren is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese literature, language and cultural
studies at the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of
Melbourne. She has published extensively on the popular culture of late imperial China,
women’s performance narratives, gender studies and Chinese marriage systems.