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chinese economic reform
chinese family
chinese patriarchy
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domestic division of labor china
economic modernization china
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family roles china
fatherhood china
filial piety china
gender roles china
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male migrants china
male sexuality
marital power china
masculinity among chinese migrants
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rural to urban migration in china
social transformation china
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south china migrants
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- ISBN 9780520288287
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China's sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations.
Susanne Y. P. Choi is Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yinni Peng is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Baptist University.
