Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China

by Yang Shen

This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also examines the gender dynamics at work, in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized, yet huge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811358168
• ISBN13: 9789811358166
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"