Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism

by Lisa Rofel

Book Overview

In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520210794
• ISBN13: 9780520210790
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

She knows real china

I do not know why the rating is so low here. Yes, it has some parts dealing with theories. But in fair, her interviews and field works have done really well . Rofel, as an anthropologist, brought back many valuable materials from the interviews with chinese women workers in 1980's China. She is very sensetive to pick up the conversations with the woemn she interviewed, besides, her interpretations on these women are precise, and they are the real images of woman workers as I, a Chinese, knew in 1980s. Skipping the introduction part, which is about theory, you will find lively and interting China women of 1980s to pride on their equality to men.