Hidden Transfers
How Rural Women’s Reproductive Work Paid for Industrialization in Mao’s China
Hidden Transfers
How Rural Women’s Reproductive Work Paid for Industrialization in Mao’s China
320 pages | 12 halftones, 3 tables | 6 x 9
Asian Studies: East Asia, General Asian Studies
History: Asian History, General History
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Visions of Women’s Work in Late Imperial and Republican China
2. Cotton Cultivation Between the Household Economy and the State
3. The Struggle for the Cotton Harvest
4. Labor Intensification in the Cotton Fields
5. Scarcity, Substitution, and Overwork in the Rural Household
6. Underconsumption and Overwork Beyond Guanzhong
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index