Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

by Fran Martin

Book Overview

In Dreams of Flight , Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017619
• ISBN13: 9781478017615
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"