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4 Jacka (1997:117–19) describes the importance of grandmothers in caring for young children
in rural China. See also the discussion of Shanghai households in Davis (2000: esp. 254) and
Unger (1993:42–3).
5 For a different view see William Jankowiak’s research in Huhhot in the early 1980s and his
conclusion that ‘the extent of sexual harassment in Huhhot is startling’ (1993: 188). He
reported that all of his respondents claimed to have had experienced or witnessed sexual
harassment. However, Jankowiak’s findings relate to the early reform period and to a very
different urban setting from that discussed here. His interviewees, who were mainly state-
sector employees, spoke of occurrences of sexual harassment in public as well as private
places.
6 This is an observation based on one year spent in Shanghai at both Fudan and Tongji
universities where there were a large number of Internet bars and cafés located around the
campuses and the majority of clients at these times were male students.
7 However, this site is no longer in operation, having closed its service on 30 December 2000.
The founder and CEO, Rosemary Brisco, is now a member of the Digital Divide Task Force
of the World Economic Forum and has written a White Paper on the ‘Gender Digital Divide
in Asia’ entitled ‘Turning the Analog World into a Digital Work Force’.
8 The launch was held in Hong Kong on 23 May 2000.
9 <http://www.newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china-
culture.html> contains a reference to this site. However, I have not been able to access it.
10 For divergent opinions on the potential for the growth of civil society in China with the rise
of a middle class and strong business and private sector, see studies by You Ji (1998),
Brødsgaard (1992), Calhoun (1994), Pearson (1997), Cheek (1998) and Guo (2000).

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